System-config-soundcard

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Sun Nov 28 16:09:42 EST 2004


Hard to say whether you've made things worse by going down the right
path, but your problem, at least originally, is probably nothing more
severe than raising the volume on your sound card with a mixer app like
alsamixer. It's muted by default.


Kenneth Lee writes:
> Hello all, I'm trying to configure my soundcard and I'm not having much
> luck.
> 
> The system is a Dell GX1 running Fedora FC2 and the audio adaptor is a
> built-in Crystal brand.
> 
> I googled the speakup archives and read all the msgs related to soundcards.
> Everything I read suggested using sndconfig, so I had to find it on the web
> and install it. I used rpm to install and got a warning (which I already
> forgot), but the program is there and runs.  When I run sndconfig it reports
> that I have no sound mmodules installed in the kernal.  Well I don't know
> anything about that or how to find out what modules are installed nor how to
> install others.
> 
> Later I found a utility called "system.config-soundcard" but when I ran it
> it said I need to run in an X window or set my DISPLAY variable.
> 
> So  I set my DISPLAY variable to "export DISPLAY=localhost:0" and now
> system-config-soundcard just says I need to be running an X server.
> 
> I feel like I'm in an infinite loop! <g>
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> Ken -N5SWR
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