Hello from FC5 and WTF is with my sound?

[rabbit]

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?

[MyndFyre]

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.

[iago]

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. 

[MyndFyre]

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.

[rabbit]

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?

[Chavo]

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.

[Joe]

I had a lot less trouble using ESD (eSound) instead of ALSA.

[rabbit]

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.

[Ergot]

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.

[rabbit]

It's been working for a while.  I even replaced my shitty speakers ^^

[Ergot]

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 :\.

[rabbit]

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.