Happy Birthday to me! My wife couldn't stand me whining about my old
machine, so she picked up a demo emachines for my birthday from Best
Buy.
I just finished installing fedora core 3, and I'm having a few
problems with the audio.
1. The audio test worked fine during the installation, and the
"soundcard detection" menu pick still works fine.
2. When I play an audio CD, I have a couple of problems.
a. There is no /dev/cdrom device. I made a sym link, but that
disappears during reboot. What's the right way to get it in
place & stay?
b. The permissions on the cd player (/dev/hdc) are 600. I
changed them to 666 so I could use the player, but, like the
symlink (above), this change does not survive the reboot.
Again, what's the right solution?
Once I do a & b, then I can see that the cd is playing. With
"grip", I can see that it's even getting the names of the tracks.
Very cool.
3. No sound. I've played plenty with gnome-volume-control, but no
sound. I don't even get anything from the headphone jack on the
front panel.
Some futher diagnostics:
From soundcard detection:
Detect sound device
Vendo: Intel
Model: Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
Module: snd-intel8x0
When I run gnome-cd I get:
** (gnome-cd:3579): WARNING **: Generic IO error
>From /etc/modprobe.conf:
<snip>
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0
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/m
<snip>
> lsmod
snd_intel8x0 34829 3
snd_ac97_codec 64401 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 47609 0
snd_mixer_oss 17217 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 97993 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 29765 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9673 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 4801 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 8769 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 26725 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8137 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 54053 13 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9889 2 snd
$ ll mixer
crw------- 1 bcurran root 14, 0 Jan 14 22:39 mixer
Even after changing these permissions, I get no sound.
Can anyone offer suggestions?
Thanks,
Bill
