[ale] Sound of Silence

[Nick Travis]

I just upgraded a system RHEL ES 4 and the sound stopped working, I
hadn't checked into it yet, but Dow's response made me curios, on my
system PCM is whats controlling the main volume.  I may not be the
answer to Cor van Dijk problem but I figured I'd trow it out there.

Nick


On 5/24/05, Dow Hurst <Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I did some Googling on Linux sound Intel ICH5 and found that most people
> on FC3 didn't get sound because the mixer was muting the headphone
> output.  The mixer input and outputs were switched around.  Unmute all
> input and outputs in the Yast2 sound setup and then test.   You may find
> that your headphone or such is the real volume control.  Support for
> your sound chip has been around for a while so you have support.  You do
> have in KDE in the Control Center another sound setup configuration
> module that sets up artsd to work with either OSS or ALSA.  Probably it
> is on auto detect so should be fine.  You might want to look into that
> if you do get sound in Yast2 sound setup but don't after loggin into a
> normal user in KDE.  Worst case would be to download ALSA 1.08 and
> compile into your current kernel.  That should cover the worst case
> scenario.
> Dow
> 
> 
> Cor van Dijk wrote:
> 
> > Jim Philips wrote:
> >
> >> On Friday 20 May 2005 07:59 pm, Cor van Dijk wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> I run a dual boot SuSE8.2 and SuSE9.2 on a ASUS P4P800SE mobo
> >>> with an Intel ICH5 built-in soundcard.
> >>>
> >>> The sound works fine on SuSE8.2, but does not even start on SuSE9.2.
> >>> The BIOS reports the presence of a soundcard, no problem there.
> >>> Interrupts and ioports for the "card" appear to be the same on both
> >>> os's.
> >>> I have tried rebuilding hardware sound from scratch with yast.
> >>> I have tried the "options" for the AC'97 sound configuration.
> >>> I have posted a message to SuSE, received automated response.
> >>> So far no luck with any of these.
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions will be appreciated. Cor van Dijk.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Cor,
> >>
> >> What drivers are available for your card? Are they included in ALSA?
> >> Is that the sound system you're using? Have you tried building the
> >> drivers into the kernel (if they aren't included)? Are you running
> >> KDE or Gnome?
> >> All of these questions matter. KDE & Gnome use different sound
> >> daemons and what works for one doesn't always work for the other.
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> > Jim,
> > Thanks for your response. The drivers were loaded automatically during
> > the installation and appear not ALSA related. However, the "test"
> > facility
> > from inside the yast hardware configuration should work regardless? It
> > worked on SuSE8.2 but not on 9.2. I noticed on the SuSE site that
> > there appear to be issues with ALSA drivers in the 9.1 distro, but
> > presently I am not sure whether that has anything to do with my
> > problem. Looking at /proc/modules a whole bunch of sound stuff is
> > loaded and is practically identical to what is in /proc/modules in
> > 8.2. I removed and reinserted the ALSA stuff without any effect. I am
> > running KDE on both os's. I have not build anything into the kernel;
> > what would that be anyway if the relevant modules appear to be loaded?
> > To Andrew: I was aware of that trick.
> > Presently my hypothesis is that I have a broken driver. I will try to
> > insert the driver from 8.2 into 9.2, probably is not going to work,
> > but worth trying. Thanks again. Cor van Dijk
> >
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