[olug] Getting sound in Fedora 8

Jay Woods woodsjay at cox.net
Sun Nov 9 09:02:08 UTC 2008


My computer (called wyerie) has never played sound. As wyerie had a VIA 
motherboard, this never surprised me and I didn't much care. Yesterday I 
installed a usb sound card that I ran across in an add and was inexpensive. 
It failed to play a sound. After considerable fumbling around (as I have no 
experience with sound) I got to Soundcard Detection (on the menus) which 
calls itself Audio configuration. 

On the Sound test tab, the selected card was changed from VIA to Vendor: 
JMTek, LLC. - Model: SSS USB Headphone Set - Module: snd-usb-audio.
The Sound test now works but Amarok doesn't play an old radio program which 
works on the F8 machine (woolerie) which I use as a Media Center. (All the 
packages loaded on woolerie have been loaded on wyerie but not the reverse.) 

In fiddling around I (on the Settings tab) changed to Audio Cards Order to 
JMTeck at Index 0. On the System tab the Report button (Generate sound log 
file /root/scsconfig.log) was pressed after looking at the log file and 
seeing that it still had VIA as the sound card. Now the log file has JMTek. 
No joy with Amarok. Reboot. No startup messages. Sound test with Audio 
configuration still works. No joy with Amarok.

Does anyone have a clue on getting sound with Amarok?

What seems to be relevent from the log file:

 ------- System Config Soundcard Log --------
Sun Nov  9 02:10:09 CST 2008

------- lspci --------
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139
C+ (rev 10)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller
 (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller
 (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller
 (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/
C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 
A
C97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 
PRO]
(rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] 
(Second
ary) (rev 01)
...
------- lsmod --------
Module                  Size  Used by
appletalk              30241  2
ipx                    24553  2
p8023                   5697  1 ipx
bridge                 45273  0
bnep                   14657  2
rfcomm                 32721  6
l2cap                  21953  16 bnep,rfcomm
bluetooth              47013  5 bnep,rfcomm,l2cap
fuse                   47837  1
sunrpc                154785  3
loop                   16973  0
dm_multipath           18505  0
radeon                125921  2
drm                    65897  3 radeon
ipv6                  238405  22
snd_usb_audio          75585  3
snd_seq_dummy           6853  0
snd_mpu401             11113  0
ns558                   8001  0
parport_pc             26725  0
parport                32173  1 parport_pc
snd_seq_oss            29633  0
snd_via82xx            25177  4
snd_seq_midi_event      9921  1 snd_seq_oss
gameport               14029  3 ns558,snd_via82xx
snd_seq                44913  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
via_ircc               20309  0
floppy                 52229  0
snd_pcm_oss            37441  0
irda                   95737  1 via_ircc
snd_ac97_codec         92389  1 snd_via82xx
pcspkr                  6593  0
snd_mixer_oss          16705  3 snd_pcm_oss
ac97_bus                5825  1 snd_ac97_codec
crc_ccitt               6081  1 irda
via_rhine              23625  0
snd_mpu401_uart        10305  2 snd_mpu401,snd_via82xx
snd_pcm                61509  5 
snd_usb_audio,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_c
odec
i2c_viapro             10965  0
snd_timer              21065  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
i2c_core               20949  1 i2c_viapro
snd_page_alloc         11337  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_usb_lib            17345  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            21441  2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_usb_lib
snd_seq_device          9933  4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep              10309  1 snd_usb_audio
snd                    46437  23 
snd_usb_audio,snd_mpu401,snd_seq_oss,snd_via82x
x,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mixer_oss,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_pcm,snd_t
imer,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep
soundcore               9633  3 snd
8139cp                 21313  0
8139too                24385  0
mii                     8385  3 via_rhine,8139cp,8139too
sr_mod                 17541  0
cdrom                  33249  1 sr_mod
sg                     31605  0
dm_snapshot            18661  0
dm_zero                 5825  0
dm_mirror              19521  0
dm_log                 12229  1 dm_mirror
dm_mod                 48265  10 
dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror,dm_l
og
pata_acpi               8001  0
pata_via               11461  2
ata_generic             8773  0
libata                132065  3 pata_acpi,pata_via,ata_generic
sd_mod                 26329  3
scsi_mod              123917  4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3                  110281  2
jbd                    41045  1 ext3
mbcache                10309  1 ext3
uhci_hcd               22993  0
ohci_hcd               22853  0
ehci_hcd               32845  0

------- /etc/modprobe.conf --------
alias eth0 8139too
alias eth1 via-rhine
options snd cards_limit=8
alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-via82xx
options snd-via82xx index=1
alias snd-card-2 snd-mpu401
options snd-mpu401 index=2
------- /etc/asound.conf --------
#Generated by system-config-soundcard
#If you edit this file, don't run system-config-soundcard,
#all your changes here could be lost.
#SWCONF
#DEV 0
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.ctl.card 0

------- aplay -l --------
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Set [SSS USB Headphone Set], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: V8235 [VIA 8235], device 0: VIA 8235 [VIA 8235]
  Subdevices: 3/4
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
card 1: V8235 [VIA 8235], device 1: VIA 8235 [VIA 8235]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

...


------- /proc/asound/version --------
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16.

------- rpm -q alsa-lib --------
alsa-lib-1.0.16-3.fc8

------- rpm -q alsa-utils --------
alsa-utils-1.0.16-3.fc8

------- /proc/asound/modules --------
 0 snd_usb_audio
 1 snd_via82xx
 2 snd_mpu401

------- /proc/asound/pcm --------
00-00: USB Audio : USB Audio : playback 1 : capture 1
01-01: VIA 8235 : VIA 8235 : playback 1 : capture 1
01-00: VIA 8235 : VIA 8235 : playback 4 : capture 1




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