Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 186793
fc5 creative audigy driver not working?
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:26:16 EST
Description of problem: My sound did not work after installing FC5. I have a Creative Audigy soundcard (this card is both not new and also very common).
This is also the case for me I have a Audigy 2 ZS Notebook PCMCIA (Should be supported from Alsa 1.0.11rc2 onwards by the snd-emu10k1 driver.
The solution was found there: http://www.tretyak.com/article7.html Go to "Volume Control", there choose edit/preferences, and select "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack". Then go to "Switches", and unselect "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack". It should help!
The previous solution from http://www.tretyak.com/article7.html doesn't work for me with the Notebook PCMCIA card. This card used to hang the kernel for earlier versions of the driver and it was explicitly disabled by kernel code. When the correct card initialization were discovered the card could be enabled and some support for it (enough for basic usage) were developed just before Christmas. The card have been supported with some notes from 1.0.11 r2.
FYI: This is very much a newbie-trap. During installation, you correctly configure the card so that analog users like myself get sound. Then we start up and we get no sounds. We run Pup, and the sound configuration tools change radically. FC5 now sports: System > Preferences > More Preferences > Multimedia Systems Detector System > Preferences > Sound System > Preferences > Volume Control System > Administration > Sound Card Detection The solution in the link provides sound only after the user has logged in. It has to be replicated for each user, and resultingly it means you get no login sound, amongst others. The default setting to "silence my soundcard" seems to be a poor choice of default option. The collection of related by disparate configuration tools for sound appears to be an attempt to make Microsoft proud ;)
Thr Audigy2 ZS Notebook card used to hang up the kernel before a card initialization problem was solved just before cristmas last year, the first working driver were as far as I remember part of Alsa 1.0.11rc2. To avoid this card hanging up the kernel the card were explicitly blocked by the kernel during hardware detection. I suspect that the patch doing this blocking is still in place in the fedora kernels and that this is the reason why the card isn't detected.
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you.
The Audigy2 ZS Notebook now works with the restrictions known uppstream. The following is from the souncard matrix at http://www.alsa-project.org: Digital/Analog input does not work yet. Needs more development work.