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Hello from FC5 and WTF is with my sound?
« on: June 14, 2006, 10:27:40 pm »
Well, on Slack, I had no sound.  On FC5, the sound test worked (and I had sound), but the mp3 codecs weren't installed.  After I installed them, I couldn't hear music.  Hrm.  I know Myndy used FC5.  Anyone got any ideas?
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Re: Hello from FC5 and WTF is with my sound?
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2006, 10:48:33 pm »
Quote from: rabbit on June 14, 2006, 10:27:40 pm
Well, on Slack, I had no sound.  On FC5, the sound test worked (and I had sound), but the mp3 codecs weren't installed.  After I installed them, I couldn't hear music.  Hrm.  I know Myndy used FC5.  Anyone got any ideas?
Wrong.  I've *used* FC5, and find it preferable to other Linux distros.  Recently though I've been using Vista on my laptop.
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Re: Hello from FC5 and WTF is with my sound?
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2006, 11:03:18 pm »
On Slack, run alsaconf and, if it finds your soundcard, alsamixer. 

If alsaconf doesn't find your soundcard, you will need to find drivers, and odds are high that no Linux distro will come with the drivers by default. 
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Re: Hello from FC5 and WTF is with my sound?
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2006, 11:15:15 pm »
Quote from: iago on June 14, 2006, 11:03:18 pm
On Slack, run alsaconf and, if it finds your soundcard, alsamixer. 

If alsaconf doesn't find your soundcard, you will need to find drivers, and odds are high that no Linux distro will come with the drivers by default. 
He needs the MP3 codecs.  It's not a problem with alsa.
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Re: Hello from FC5 and WTF is with my sound?
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2006, 11:39:25 pm »
I nuked Slack and replaced it with FC5.  I have SB Live! and the right modules for it (snd-emu10k1).  modprobe never worked, though.  On FC5 I installed the mp3 codecs for xmms, but do I need others?
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Re: Hello from FC5 and WTF is with my sound?
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2006, 01:05:39 am »
Some of the SoundBlaster Live! cards aren't officially supported by alsa at all because of an inability/lack of desire to reverse engineer them.  Perhaps yours is one of these? I don't remember where the compatibility page is offhand.
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Re: Hello from FC5 and WTF is with my sound?
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2006, 02:05:00 am »
I had a lot less trouble using ESD (eSound) instead of ALSA.
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Re: Hello from FC5 and WTF is with my sound?
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2006, 10:51:02 am »
Quote from: unTactical on June 15, 2006, 01:05:39 am
Some of the SoundBlaster Live! cards aren't officially supported by alsa at all because of an inability/lack of desire to reverse engineer them.  Perhaps yours is one of these? I don't remember where the compatibility page is offhand.
No.  It works.  The test the installer did autodetected emu10k1 (which I already knew) and played sound just fine.  It's something with the codecs.
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Re: Hello from FC5 and WTF is with my sound?
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2006, 01:57:47 am »
Unless you fixed it...
From my experiences with RH9, make sure that your output is set to ALSA or OSS and not to Disk Writer.
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Re: Hello from FC5 and WTF is with my sound?
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2006, 09:15:29 pm »
It's been working for a while.  I even replaced my shitty speakers ^^
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Re: Hello from FC5 and WTF is with my sound?
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2006, 09:26:35 pm »
Quote from: rabbit on June 27, 2006, 09:15:29 pm
It's been working for a while.  I even replaced my shitty speakers ^^
I enjoy reading about how people fix things in case it ever occurs to me :\.
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Re: Hello from FC5 and WTF is with my sound?
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2006, 09:47:44 pm »
Well, basically, I installed mplayer a couple times, reinstalled FC5, installed mplayer a couple more times, installed a new revision of xmms, and then installed mp3-codecs.  It sucked and took a long time.
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