From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: The onboard C-Media 8738 on the Asus A7M266-D (AMD-760MPX) motherboard is identified correctly, however volume control of the CD-ROM, Line-In, Aux-In does not work. No sound is heard through these devices. Also, no option for surround sound (4 speaker) is available even though the driver seems to have the option. The sound works OK on the same system with Windows XP Pro. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Null Beta 7.3.94 2.Detect the sound card (Test sound plays OK) 3.Play an audio CD and try to adjust the sound level Actual Results: No sound is heard from the audio CD at any volume level even though it is playing. Expected Results: Should hear and be able to adjust volume level. Additional info: C-Media has the Linux drivers for the C-Media sound chips on their website: http://www.cmedia.com.tw/8x38/linux/cmpci-5.68.tar.gz This appears to be a newer driver than the one included with Red Hat Null, I'm not sure if this one will work better or not.
I'm going to reassign this to the kernel since it seems to be a driver problem. The card is in the hwdata database and the module seems to be loaded but just not doing the right thing.
This sounds like a system with the analogue audio cable between the cd / mainboard not fitted Windows XP uses digital audio ripping so wouldnt need it.
I can assure you that the analog cable is fitted and working. The CD-Audio works both in digital and analog mode under XP. Infact the analog setting actually sounds better (Go figure). It should also be noted that the line-in and Aux-in don't work under RedHat 8.0, but do work under Windows. As this is my test system, I'm going to try installing RH9 and if that doesn't work, I'll install a generic kernel to test it.
Thanks. Let me know what you find out, and now I know its not a simple case of cabling I'll dig deeper
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