System-config-soundcard

[David Bruzos]

Hello again:
Alex, good thinking.  I forgot about the PCI and ISA differences.  Anyway, my card is a PCI, so if Ken's card is an ISA, 
my driver might not work...


On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:33:15PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> if you want to find what  the exact model of your card is try running 
> lspci. if that doesn't show your card then it means you have an isa 
> soundcard, I think the onboard sound on the gx1 is isa anyway so 
> download the isapnptools package, install it, and use pnpdump to find 
> your card. then with that model go to alsa-project.org, find the 
> soundcards link, and there should be a dropdown box on that page. use 
> that to find the correct module. I'm not sure if Fedora comes with 
> isapnptools, or maybe there's a better way to do it then this, but 
> this works for me in slackware.
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:24:50PM -0500, 
> David Bruzos wrote:
> > Hello Ken:
> > Actually I think your thinking is quite good.  However, the sndconfig utility works only with the 2.4.x kernels, because 
> > it looks for OSS kernel modules.  So, you will not be able to use the sndconfig utility to configure the sound on your 
> > FC2 system.  The FC2 system has a 2.6.x kernel, which comes with ALSA by default.  So, you will have to find alternative 
> > methods to setup your sound.
> > 
> > Firs, there are many of those crystal cards around.  Not all of them are supported by the kernel drivers.  You will 
> > have to determine which card you have.  I mean, model number, etc.  My laptop comes with a crystal sound card as well, 
> > but the kernel drivers for crystal cards do not work with it.  Luckily, there is an intel driver that works with my 
> > card.  If you are lucky, your card is the same, since my laptop is a Dell also.  The name of the kernel module is:
> > 
> > "snd_intel8x0"
> > 
> > So, you can try to load that driver into your running kernel by typing (as root):
> > 
> > # modprobe snd_intel8x0
> > 
> > If your system does not blow up, then you can try to put the lines below in your /etc/modprobe.conf file:
> > 
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> > install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
> > 
> > It is only three lines, so make sure they don't get broken up by automatic wrapping of text by your editor.  If you use 
> > vi, you should be ok.
> > 
> > Then, reboot, turn your volume all the way up, and try to play something.  When you turn your volume up, make sure to 
> > do:
> > # aumix -w 100
> > aumix -v 100
> > 
> > This is so that your wave volume is up as well as your master volume...
> > If you still get errors from aumix, then you are back where you started... Sory!
> > 
> > Those drivers work with a lot of cards, so hopefully they work for yours.  Let me know what happends...
> > 
> > Don't forget to remove the lines from your /etc/modprobe.conf if the card still does not work...
> > 
> > David B.
> > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 04:55:14PM -0500, Kenneth Lee wrote:
> > > My first thought when I started debugging this problem was the volume.  But
> > > when I try: 
> > > Aumix -v 90  
> > > 
> > > I get an error, something about device not found.  So I tried alsamixer with
> > > no parameters and I get the error: 
> > > "function snd_ctl_open failed for default. No such device".
> > > 
> > > I'd like to know what driver linux is using, but I don't know where to lookk
> > > or how to change it.
> > > 
> > > Thanks, Ken
> > >  
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> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
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