No sound card is being detected.

[tom boucher]

Hello, I installed FC3 a month or so back and have no sound on it the whole time. The current system is a Presario 1621, 233mhz, AMD 64, with an ESS1869 sound card. The computer previously had Win 98 and XP and the sound worked. I try to detect the sound card, and "no sound card is detected" I have looked at the BIOS settings, and they are DMA 0, DMA 1, IRQ 7.... I had 2 modprobe files and one was .conf and the other was .conf.dist. The .conf had only one line of code in it, whereas the .dist file had what appeared to be the default files. I am not sure what to do in order to get this to work. Any ideas? Thanks, TOM

[trickster]

Hi,

Take a look at this post.

[trickster]

And his one.

[tom boucher]

I do not see the sections listed under this person's modprobe.conf file, Alsa section, etc... As I mentioned above. I had two different modprobe files. Here is the contents of my .conf, does this look normal?


# default modutils aliases
alias binfmt-204 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-263 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-264 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-267 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-387 binfmt_aout
alias block-major-1-* rd
alias block-major-3-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-8-* sd_mod
alias block-major-9-* md
alias block-major-11-* sr_mod
alias block-major-13-* xd
alias block-major-15-* cdu31a
alias block-major-16-* gscd
alias block-major-17-* optcd
alias block-major-18-* sjcd
alias block-major-20-* mcdx
alias block-major-22-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-23-* mcd
alias block-major-24-* sonycd535
alias block-major-25-* sbpcd
alias block-major-26-* sbpcd
alias block-major-27-* sbpcd
alias block-major-29-* aztcd
alias block-major-32-* cm206
alias block-major-33-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-34-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-37-* ide-tape
alias block-major-44-* ftl
alias block-major-46-* pcd
alias block-major-47-* pf
alias block-major-56-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-57-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-88-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-89-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-90-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-91-* ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-93-* nftl
alias block-major-113-* viocd
alias char-major-4-* serial
alias char-major-5-* serial
alias char-major-9-* st
alias char-major-10-2 msbusmouse
alias char-major-10-3 atixlmouse
alias char-major-10-135 rtc
alias char-major-10-139 openprom
alias char-major-10-157 applicom
alias char-major-10-175 agpgart
alias char-major-10-250 hci_vhci
alias char-major-13-* input
alias char-major-13-0 joydev
alias char-major-13-32 mousedev
alias char-major-19-* cyclades
alias char-major-20-* cyclades
alias char-major-22-* pcxx
alias char-major-23-* pcxx
alias char-major-27-* zftape
alias char-major-34-* scc
alias char-major-35-* tclmidi
alias char-major-36-* netlink
alias char-major-48-* riscom8
alias char-major-49-* riscom8
alias char-major-57-* esp
alias char-major-58-* esp
alias char-major-63-* kdebug
alias char-major-90-* mtdchar
alias char-major-96-* pt
alias char-major-97-* pg
alias char-major-107-* 3dfx
alias char-major-109-* lvm-mod
alias char-major-188-* usbserial
alias char-major-200-* vxspec
alias char-major-206-* osst
alias char-major-216-* rfcomm
alias dos msdos
alias dummy0 dummy
alias dummy1 dummy
alias iso9660 isofs
alias net-pf-1 unix
alias net-pf-2 ipv4
alias net-pf-17 af_packet
alias netalias-2 ip_alias
alias irlan0 irlan
alias irda-dongle-0 tekram
alias irda-dongle-1 esi
alias irda-dongle-2 actisys
alias irda-dongle-3 actisys
alias irda-dongle-4 girbil
alias irda-dongle-5 litelink
alias irda-dongle-6 airport
alias irda-dongle-7 old_belkin
alias plip0 plip
alias plip1 plip
alias tunl0 ipip
alias cipcb0 cipcb
alias cipcb1 cipcb
alias cipcb2 cipcb
alias cipcb3 cipcb
alias slip0 slip
alias slip1 slip
alias tty-ldisc-1 slip
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty-sir
alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
alias tty-ldisc-15 hci_uart
alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe
install ppp-compress-21 /bin/true
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias usbdevfs usbcore
alias xfrm-type-2-50 esp4
alias xfrm-type-2-51 ah4
alias xfrm-type-2-108 ipcomp
alias xfrm-type-10-50 esp6
alias xfrm-type-10-51 ah6
alias xfrm-type-10-108 ipcomp6
alias cipher_null crypto_null
alias digest_null crypto_null
alias compress_null crypto_null
alias sha384 sha512
install binfmt-0000 /bin/true
install binfmt_misc /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install binfmt_misc && { /bin/mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc > /dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
install nfsd /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install nfsd && { /bin/mount -t nfsd nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd > /dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
install sunrpc /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install sunrpc && { /bin/mount -t rpc_pipefs sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs > /dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
install char-major-10 /bin/true
install char-major-10-1 /bin/true
install dummy0 /sbin/modprobe -o dummy0 --ignore-install dummy
install dummy1 /sbin/modprobe -o dummy1 --ignore-install dummy
install net-pf-19 /bin/true
install net-pf-3 /bin/true
install net-pf-6 /bin/true
install ov518_decomp { /sbin/modprobe ov511; } ; /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install ov518_decomp
install scsi_hostadapter /bin/true
install usbmouse /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install usbmouse && { /sbin/modprobe hid; /bin/true; }
remove binfmt_misc { /bin/umount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc > /dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove binfmt_misc
remove ov518_decomp /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove ov518_decomp && { /sbin/modprobe -r ov511; /bin/true; }
remove usbmouse { /sbin/modprobe -r hid; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove usbmouse
remove sunrpc { /bin/umount /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs > /dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove sunrpc
remove nfsd { /bin/umount /proc/fs/nfsd > /dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove nfsd


alias usb-uhci uhci-hcd
alias usb-ohci ohci-hcd
alias uhci uhci-hcd

alias char-major-116-* snd
alias sound-service-*-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-*-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-*-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-*-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-*-12 snd-pcm-oss

install sound-slot-* /sbin/modprobe snd-card-${MODPROBE_MODULE##sound[_-]slot[_-]}

install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore_install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss
install snd-pcm-device /sbin/modprobe --ignore_install snd-seq-device && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-es1869

alias nfs4 nfs
alias rpc_pipefs sunrpc
alias rpc_svc_gss_pipefs sunrpc

install eth1394 /bin/true

install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /sbin/modprobe snd-emu10k1-synth

[trickster]

Can you post the output of the

lsmod

command?
There are some line about your soundcard there, but I don't own one of those, so I can't tell if that is correct.
The lsmod command will tell if the correct module is loaded.

[pbharris]

hello,
try this:

modprobe snd-es18xx
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
modprobe snd-mixer-oss
modprobe snd-seq-oss

at that point you should have some sound - try playing an mp3 or wav file.


then try adding this to your modprobe.conf

alias snd-card-0 snd-snd-es18xx
remove snd-snd-es18xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-es18xx

also i would remvoe this stuff from

alias char-major-116-* snd
alias sound-service-*-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-*-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-*-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-*-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-*-12 snd-pcm-oss