Damn sound again?

[ZiaTioN]

I swaer every time I change distros or releases I have to fight with the sound for hours. Hss anyone had any success with sound in FC2?

My sound card is an onboard VIA
Model: VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller.
Module: snd-via82xx

I have checked and double checked all the mixer volume settings and everything is unmuted and turned all the way up. The volume control panel does show controls for both OSS and ALSA so I set all settings in both all the way up and not muted.

The test sound was never heard (during install or when manually run) but the card is detected. The output of my modprobe.conf is:

[root@Freedom mnt]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 tulip
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd

My /sbin/lspci is:

[root@Freedom mnt]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

I try to play a system default sound with no luck too:

[root@Freedom mnt]# aplay /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/generic.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono

It says it is being played but I never hear it. I have run both aumix and alsamixer via the shell prompt and those settings are correct too. Is there anything I am missing here? The sound was working fine on RH9 before the upgrade and continues to work fine on the Windows XP box that shares these speakers.

So I guess I am just saying HELP ME! Oh please dear God help me. Why do you torment me so?

[Void Main]

Looks like some things here might help you:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=123631

[ZiaTioN]

Ahh yeah. It is probably the quirk setting. I also do not have the kernel docs installed but will try this setting when I get home. It appears there are 3 valid possibilities in this bug post that I have not tried (switching to KDE and tweaking volume settings and then switch back, try quirk settings or change modprobe lines) but I am pretty sure it is probably the issues with the swapped pinout.

I will post back my progress here if and when I get it working and inform you guys as to what worked (or did not work) for me. Thanks for the link void.

[Ice9]

ZiaTioN wrote:

Oh please dear God help me.

... and Void Main appeared!

[ZiaTioN]

Well it seems that the quirk setting was my issues also. Would have been nice to know before I re-installed alsa and everything else under the Sun. Anyway adding "options snd-via82xx ac97_quirk=0" to the end of my /etc/modprobe.conf file worked like a charm. Now I have to figure out why gstreamer is crashing when I try to play my mp3's. I installed the gstream mp3 plugin and all it's dependecies and now the app does not error but when I click the file to play it crashes.

Oh well at least I have sound now. Now I can check out strongbad emails again! LOL...