On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:25:46 +0200
"Christian Menzel" <christian.menzel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/21/07, Ric Moore <wayward4now(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeez, what kind of soundcard is it? IRQ conflict might not be out
> of the question. If you're still desperate, jerk more cards out to
> see if that resolves a possible conflict. What kind of mo-board and
> processor, how much ram? I assume you have checked the mixer, got
> the speakers plugged in,? Plugged into the "speaker out" and not
> the "mike"? (I've done that!) They are turned on and the volume
> about halfway up.
>
> If it's a good ole ISA SoundBlaster AWE64, they have mentioned that
> support has been dropped and it takes a bit of wrangling to get one
> to work. Ric
>
It's a PCI soundblaster which was working for month without any
problems. When I boot a live system from DVD sound is working.
I think it stopped working when I tried to use Audacity to capture
from lineIn.
There must be a master mixer or something that thinks the card is
muted. Even if I boot into runlevel 3 and try auplay as root, I hear
nothing.
Waiting for FC7...
Chris
You can check what audacity thinks is the card it is using by going
into edit:preferences. There is a selection drop down for play and
record separately. Then from a console or terminal type aplay -lLv to
see what devices alsa has defined as aliases. Once you know that try
aplay -D one of the devices some.wav. Make sure that the speaker out
is plugged into the correct jack. The aplay -lLv should also give you
the hardware devices. if aplay -D some device alias doesn't work, try
aplay -D hwplug:0,0 some.wav, or whichever devices alsa has assigned.
My past experience indicates that alsa keeps some internal state
information that can wreak havoc while having problems. And did you
remove any .asoundrc in ~/home or asound.state or asound.conf in /etc
before you removed the card and plugged it back in? That could cause
problems also.
If none of this works, ask on the alsa-devel list. They will want a
lot of information before they can help you, but they are very
knowledgeable about sound issues.