Sound card recognized but no sound on SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
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Sound card recognized but no sound on SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
I have a SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio card on my computer, and installed Fedora core 3 yesterday, and have been looking at these forums and any other faq guide or tutorial I can find on the net with google and havent been able to fix this yet. I have no knowledge of how linux works and am deciding if I like it better then windows, and up until the sound wouldnt work I really liked it. I listen to alot of music, So I need a computer able to use my sound card. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for helping a newbie in advance
In Gnome, check the sound preferences (RedHat > Preferences > Sound) and make sure that you have the sound turned on for the desktop. Sound is turned off by default.
Then open the sound mixer (RedHat > Sound and Video > Volume Control) and try unmuting anything that is muted and turn up the volumes to max. Master and PCM will be the main problems, but also turn up CD and anything else you know to be present.
Your sound chip is about as vanilla as it could possibly be and it is hard to imagine that it was misconfigured during FC3 installation. With that said, here are some things to do/try.
1) Manually go through the installation steps for the sound module from the command prompt (i.e., from the terminal logged in as root or use su). These steps come directly from the ALSA page for your sound module (snd-intel8x0) (see http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...odule=intel8x0).
I have the same sound card, and same problem except i am using Slackware. There is no sound. The media player plays the file normally, with no error message. Any ideas? Oh, and i think the only device listed for audio in the info center is a modem. I am completely new to linux, so i did install of OS and havnt touched anything. Much appreciation to anyone who wants to help.
I have Verified that sound is enabled in the BIOS and Im using realplayer to play mp3's and the default to player to play cd's, and still no sound. I double checked the sound volumes, all cranked to max and un-muted, and still nothing. Thanks for all the help you have provided so far, you are my only hope for sound on this thing.
Oh and it works in windows xp home (I have it configured to duel boot) So I know the card works, just not in FC3
[xzallion@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost xzallion]# modinfo soundcore
bash: modinfo: command not found
[root@localhost xzallion]# chmod a+rw/dev/dsp/dev/mixer/dev/sequencer/dev/midi
chmod: too few arguments
Try `chmod --help' for more information.
[root@localhost xzallion]# modprobe snd-intel8x0
bash: modprobe: command not found
[root@localhost xzallion]# modprobe snd-pcm-oss
bash: modprobe: command not found
[root@localhost xzallion]# modprobe snd-mixer-oss
bash: modprobe: command not found
[root@localhost xzallion]# modprobe snd-seq-oss
bash: modprobe: command not found
[root@localhost xzallion]# /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 26629 1
lp 12077 0
parport 37001 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 23493 0
sunrpc 156325 1
ipt_REJECT 6593 1
ipt_state 1857 1
ip_conntrack 40309 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 3521 1
ip_tables 16321 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
dm_mod 55637 0
video 15813 0
button 6609 0
battery 9285 0
ac 4805 0
md5 4033 1
ipv6 231681 8
uhci_hcd 31449 0
ehci_hcd 32585 0
i2c_i801 8141 0
i2c_core 20801 1 i2c_i801
snd_intel8x0 33249 2
snd_ac97_codec 67489 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 47989 0
snd_mixer_oss 17089 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 93001 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 29125 1 snd_pcm
snd 52645 8 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10017 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 9541 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
b44 23365 0
mii 4673 1 b44
floppy 57841 0
ext3 116297 1
jbd 69977 1 ext3
[root@localhost xzallion]# /etc/modprobe.comf
bash: /etc/modprobe.comf: No such file or directory
[root@localhost xzallion]# /etc/modprobe.comf.
bash: /etc/modprobe.comf.: No such file or directory
[root@localhost xzallion]#
None of the commands work
Im sorry I messed up before, Im a noob. I am typing these in the terminal, thats correct right?
Well I have to go to school, be back on this afternoon. Thanks again for all the help so far.
Try running them from the terminal one more time, but this time logged in as the root user.
I do so much of my linux admin logged in as root that I forget there are some issues with using su. My next comment runs contrary to what you read about using linux, but doing diagnostics and administration while logged in as the root user circumvents a lot of issues. You should continue your attempt to get sound working as the root user.
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