Re: Sound Card?

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:30:44 -0700 (MST), Alan Dayley
<alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
> mike enriquez said:
> >
> > I have tried 3 cards. First the Intel 915GAG card has a built in
> > Sound Card and that didn't work.I put a Turttle Graphics Sound Card and
> > that did not work as well as Sound Blaster 24bit. The SB and Turttle
> > card were very simple and Fedora 3 would not see them.
> > What do you think?
>
> To full fill what I said, I checked my new computer here. It has the
> nVidia chipset but I did not load any binary nVidia drivers. FC3 just
> worked with it. This is what it lists for my sound card: Multimedia audio
> controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2S AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1)
>
> I don't know if nVidia based sound cards are available.
>
> More to your point: We need more information than just a report of
> failure. You need to plug one of these boards in and tell us exactly:
> - Any messages you get or see about the sound
> - Bring up a terminal or console and do the command /sbin/lspci. Post the
> output of this command.
> - Do the command /sbin/lsmod. Post the output of this command.
> - What sound card is currently installed?
> - What kind of slot (PCI, ISA) is it in?
> - What motherboard do you have?
>
> I don't think you should be having this much trouble with getting sound
> working.
>
> Alan
>
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I am not familiar with yoru distro, but I do have an nvidia chipset
mb. If your nvidia mb has AC97 sound, you more than likely need to
setup your sound using the snd-intel8x0 driver file. Also, then open
the mixer and make sure that your outputs are not Muted.

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Donn
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