From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: Good Day . . . I just loaded fc3 then updated fc3 through yum. No audio is coming out the speakers from any application. Same on KDE and GNOME. I checked Kmix and ALSAMixer - no mute. When I quickly move the slide volume controls on either of the above I get crackling static and hum from the speakers at high volume. They are active. My sound card is listed in hardware and so is the correct driver, Creative Labs SB LIVE! with the snd-emu10k1 driver. I tried to "play" a WAVE file. No sound came out the speakers but I could see my hard drive light blinking away at a fast rate. The mechanics of playing the sound are working. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. play any sound 2. 3. Actual Results: no sound Expected Results: sound Additional info: My setup has worked with several other distributions. This is the first problem that I have had with the sound. I don't know what to do!
Sorry about this. I forgot. The test sound worked OK during the install process.
Once more. My apologises . . . The sound worked prior to the update. Mail arrived and I heard the announcement.
If it's not muted, and it's not playing sound, that sounds like a kernel issue.
Are you sure, that your card is not in Digital mode ??? For analog speakers "SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack" and "IEC958 Optical Raw" should be mutted.
Thank You for the reply. ALSAmixer displays both your items but the controls are not enabled. The app reports that the SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack is OFF. ALSAmixer has 47 controls. I will try and play with it from my end while other investigations are active. I cannot give this much time because I need the sound for my teleconferencing. I'll give it a couple of days and then reinstall Libranet 2.8.1. It is very, very old. If anything pops up at your end please let me know.
Created attachment 106705 [details] SBLive! Value alsa settings Paul, (assuming you still have FC3) could you try saving the attached file and then running /usr/sbin/alsactl restore -f asound.state and checking whether you can hear any sound. That file contains the current settings that work for my sblive. Don't make the volume on your speakers too loud before testing though though - I've set the master volume to be around 60-70%...
Good Day . . . Thanx for the reply but unfortunately I have to replace the OS as soon as this message goes out. I needed the sound for my conferences. Keep up the good work.
I have similar problem and have no solution, look at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136082
I had the exact same problem as paul. Fresh install, worked durinf install test, up2dated, no sound - not even in the sound card test. Everything acted like it was working, but no sound. Check alsamixer and wasn't muted, the ditial out ones mentioned above were. Downloaded the asound.state and applied it as instructed, sound returned for me. Thanks.
I had a similar problem when launching certain programs. Xine for example would work fine when launched from the command line, but when launched from the task bar shortcut I created - the sound was crackly. TV-time had now audio, except for a loud hum... My problems went away when I looked into how ESD was launching. All I ended up doing to solve the problem was to change the default sampling rate to 48000. I expected this to fix my xine problems, because I was able to notice xine using the esd driver. But to my pleasant surprise, TV-time now works??!! [my platform is x86_64]
I've also been suffering this lack of sound since upgrading from FC2 a couple of weeks ago; I'll put some logs. below. There's nothing in dmesg or /var/log/messages that might indicate a problem. Everything worked a treat under FC2 (patched up to date); I didn't try sound in between upgrading to FC3 and then bringing /it/ up to date with the latest RPMs. The attached asound.conf above doesn't fix it for me, and gives: alsactl: set_control:930: warning: name mismatch (PC Speaker Playback Switch/Sigmatel Surround Playback Switch) for control #44 alsactl: set_control:930: warning: name mismatch (PC Speaker Playback Volume/Sigmatel Surround Playback Volume) for control #45 alsactl: set_control:1025: bad control.45.value type [ but other settings seems to change OK ] $ lsmod Module Size Used by usblp 15937 0 nvidia 3474748 12 parport_pc 29701 1 lp 15405 0 parport 37129 2 parport_pc,lp nfsd 185569 9 exportfs 9921 1 nfsd lockd 59625 2 nfsd md5 8001 1 ipv6 236897 18 autofs4 21828 1 sunrpc 135077 19 nfsd,lockd ipt_LOG 9921 3 iptable_filter 7489 1 ip_tables 20929 2 ipt_LOG,iptable_filter microcode 11489 0 vfat 16577 1 fat 41185 1 vfat dm_mod 57925 0 uhci_hcd 33497 0 snd_emu10k1_synth 10817 0 snd_emux_synth 36289 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 11073 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi_event 11329 1 snd_seq_virmidi snd_seq_midi_emul 10561 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq 51665 4 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi_emul snd_emu10k1 83909 8 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_rawmidi 26849 2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1 snd_seq_device 12237 5 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 68513 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm_oss 51573 0 snd_mixer_oss 21313 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 89541 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 27077 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 13509 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem 8513 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 12997 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd 54821 23 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore 12961 2 snd tulip 49761 0 floppy 56913 0 ext3 117961 6 jbd 57177 1 ext3 $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) 00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11) 00:13.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 01) 00:13.1 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200 Ultra] (rev a1) $ system-config-soundcard Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 23 [74%] [on] Front Right: Playback 23 [74%] [on] Playing WAVE '/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo All same symptoms; everything seems to run OK, just ... no sound.
Could you do: alsactl -f test.state store and attach test.state file.
Created attachment 111268 [details] Results of 'alsactl -f test.state store' for SB Live! 1024 Here 'tis.
Good news, no explanation; after the last jiggery pokery with alsactl store/restore followed by an enforced power-down (coupla days; my monitor blew), sound's returned OK. Still suffer the muted sound at startup I've suffered since FC2, but I can cope with manually running 'aslactl restore' once after every infrequent reboot. Ta for the help.
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.