Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 115873
support for ES1983S Maestro-3i soundcard
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:36 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: This is probably more related to the kernel than to firstboot. If so, sorry about that, I wasn't sure which component to choose. I'm running firstboot manually from the command-line, because of bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115678 This is the command-line: $ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 $ firstboot The system is a Dell Latitude CPx laptop (model PPX, Latitude C family). I get past the first pages, "Welcome", "License Agreement", "Date and Time", "Display", "User Account". There's a problem with "Sound Card" though. The "Sound Card" page displays: Vendor: ESS Technology Model: ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator Module: snd-maestro3 Then I click on button "Play test sound". The first time I ran the test I got no error message, but the test failed: no sound was played. So I answered "No" to the message box asking "Did you hear the sample sound?". After rebooting, I have been consistently seeing this additional message when performing the same routine: The snd-maestro3 driver could not be loaded. This soundcard may not be compatible with Red Hat Linux. This soundcard used to work properly with FC1. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firstboot-1.3.3-3 How reproducible: Always
What happens if you just load it by hand, run 'aumix' or 'alsamixer' to turn up the volume,and then play a sound?
Actually the module *is* loaded, if that's what you mean: # lsmod [...] snd_maestro3 25636 1 snd_ac97_codec 52612 1 snd_maestro3 [...] # I'm unable to find "alsamixer" on the system: # locate alsamixer /usr/share/man/fr/man1/alsamixer.1.gz # I tried "aumix". The volume was indeed set at minimum. I modified the colume level and was then able to hear the terminal bell or play a sound for example with: # cat /usr/share/man/fr/man1/alsamixer.1.gz > /dev/dsp # However I'm still unable to hear the sample sound from within firstboot. So I answer "No" to the dialog that asks "Did you hear thee sample sound?" and then I get this message "Automatic detection of the sound card did not work. Audio will not be available on the system. Please click OK to continue." After that I can't play sounds. If I run "aumix" again, I see that the volume level is actually set to 0. Just a guess: Maybe firstboot is resetting the volume level to 0? This is what I see on the console... # firstboot [...] * dccprobe retruned bogus values: ID: None Name: None HorizSync: None VertSync: None vol set to 0, 0, P pcm set to 0, 0 speaker set to 0, 0 mic set to 0, 0, R cd set to 0, 0, P [...] #
Firstboot needs to override the default ALSA volume setting, which is 0. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115932 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.