I have a sound blaster Audigy 2 ZS as a sound card. When I installed fedora core linux with kernel 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 all was ok with module snd-emu10K1 until 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5. When I updated this kernel with yum (but probably it's related to another application problem) the sound card didn't work ... I reinstalled all and it worked again ... I only wrote yum -y update and then sound blaster didn't work again. Actually the problem is unsolved. That's why I decided to wrote. Thanks a lot in advance
Could you check what packages are updated (by yum) when sound doesn't work? Could you run system-config-soundcard and attach /root/scsound.log here? (When sound doesn't work)
Created attachment 130251 [details] Log File
To tell you what packages are updated for what I Know I have to reinstall FC5 and it would be a little problem now ... do you have any suggestion like a file containing the list of packages updated or at least a file containing packages installed with date on the system? Thanks a lot in advance Fabrizio Chierzi
So does the card work or doesn't? Because the log file looks sane....
Unfortunately the sound card still doesn't work ... I don't know if I have to try to install several time a subset of packages hoping to find a situation where the sound card works in the system updated and a situation where doesn't but it takes a while ... do you have any other suggestion? Fabrizio Chierzi
I have a similar problem with an Platinum Audigy EX card with any kernel I've got in updating later than 2.6.15-12054-FC5 for i386-64-bit (my current disks). The card/IO box works beautifully with the disk ISO version, even with the optical input, but attempts to update the software make that sound system non-functional. Later update versions of FC5 i386-64 stubbornly attempt to use the onboard sound (which is disabled in the bios), and they seem to want to exclude the Audigy. The later versions seem to be able to detect the card, but in a limited way that leaves it non-functional. I downloaded all multimedia software. I couldn't get a copy of the log. I simply reloaded the disks, the ogg disk, and the card works again. I noticed that you use a Radeon. I had to change from my Radeons (which I had preferred with Windows, but none worked with the Audigy) to a 5700LE nVidia chip video card I had--otherwise my sys locked up getting to the desktop gui. You might try another type of video card with a different chipset/driver. I'm waiting for another nVidia-based video card to arrive.... It seems that TV out doesn't work, either, with Radeon.
Any resolution for this problem. My audigy also worked under 2054_FC5 but no longer works under the most recent build of the kernel. HELP!
I have another sys (2800+ Athlon XP Socket A) with a Live! 5.1 Platinum (16-bit w/front panel) with the most recent kernel, all multimedia packages, and most other packages that works well. (?) This seems to be a problem with 24-bit Audigy/Audigy 2 systems....
I noticed the other day that ATi offers proprietary unified Linux drivers on their site. Unfortunately, these drivers require certain other packages to be installed previously to the driver install. The installation process itself seems to be very involved, also. I understand that TV-out works with these drivers. The driver packages offer a control panel-type GUI which allows more configuration control. These drivers may help also with incompatabilities. However, the system with the Audigy and the updated Linux kernel uses an nVidia-based VPU card and still locked up. Red Hat/Fedora has yet again updated their kernel, so that may work better.
Could you please check the 1.0.12rc2 kernel and ALSA packages? hot-to is here: http://people.redhat.com/stransky/alsa/
I mean 1.0.12rc2 drivers, of course...
Dear Martin, thank you very much for your piece of advice but I needed to solve the problem quickly and I had to move to another linux distribution to solve that problem ... anyway as soon as possible I want to install again FC because I like the way it works. Enjoy your weekend Fabrizio Chierzi