I think I may have resolved this now:-
Well I've been twiddling all day and after looking at a few pages I went to this one:- http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=247
and ran alsamixer as root and put everything to max including some sliders way over on the right. After escaping out the desktop sounds started and the Souncard Detection Utility worked correctly. XMMS and Rhythmbox are now working okay although
XMMS still starts up first time with 100% vol but I can handle that now that the two sound outputs are equal.
Although whilst playing back through XMMS and opening the sound controls produces some background interference so I'll stay away from that for a while!!
I just wonder now whether I can live with 'Sound for events' or risk something going wrong if I turn it off :(
--
Dave
PC Configuration
Assuming the same volume level for the powered external speakers of 50% for both FC1 and FC2.
Motherboard is MS8188E VIA KM400/A Chipset Socket A with AMD 2400+ Hard drives hda and hdb 80GB, Memory 512MB Built in sound chip AC97 Audi Codec (AC97 2.1) Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro compatible
Fedora Core 1
XMMS and Rhythmbox and Soundcard detection work OK. The module used under MP3 is esound.
/etc/modules.conf
alias eth0 via-rhine
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
/etc/modprobe.conf
include /etc/modprobe.conf.dist
alias eth0 via-rhine
lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
via82cxxx_audio 23672 1 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 16680 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio]
uart401 7972 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio]
sound 71444 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
soundcore 6500 4 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio sound]
parport_pc 18468 1 (autoclean)
lp 8356 0 (autoclean)
parport 36800 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 12052 0 (autoclean) (unused)
via-rhine 14672 1
mii 3992 0 [via-rhine]
iptable_nat 21752 0 (autoclean) (unused)
iptable_mangle 2808 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ipt_REJECT 4216 1 (autoclean)
ipt_state 1112 6 (autoclean)
ip_conntrack 28616 2 (autoclean) [iptable_nat ipt_state]
iptable_filter 2444 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14752 7 [iptable_nat iptable_mangle ipt_REJECT ipt_state iptable_filter]
floppy 56348 0 (autoclean)
sg 34796 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17016 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 11856 0
scsi_mod 109384 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 34176 0
cdrom 34048 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 2624 0 (unused)
hid 23652 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 19784 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 25740 0 (unused)
usbcore 77984 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
mousedev 5204 1 (autoclean)
input 5824 0 (autoclean) [keybdev hid mousedev]
ext3 70916 2
jbd 51020 2 [ext3]
Fedora Core 2
XMMS starts at FULL volume but after the volume in XMMS is adjusted it works OK. Starting Rhythmbox (MusicPlayer) the sound is very low and can't be adjusted.
The XMMS MP3 module is ALSA 1.2.10 with audio HW:0,1 (only option that produces sound) mixer card 0 and mixer device PCM)
All sound controls checked for maximum and mutes off. Soundcard Detection doesn't produce a sound but I answer 'Yes' anyway since it then says it's turning the soundcard off anyway :(
/etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 via-rhine
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_pcm_oss 40740 0
nls_utf8 1536 0
nls_cp437 5376 0
vfat 10496 0
fat 33472 1 vfat
snd_mixer_oss 13824 3 snd_pcm_oss
snd_via82xx 19104 4
snd_pcm 68872 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx
snd_timer 17156 1 snd_pcm
snd_ac97_codec 50436 1 snd_via82xx
snd_page_alloc 7940 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
gameport 3328 1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart 4864 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 17184 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 6152 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 38372 13 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec,
snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 6112 3 snd
parport_pc 19392 1
lp 8236 0
parport 29640 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 10624 0
rfcomm 27164 0
l2cap 16004 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 33636 4 rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 101064 1
iptable_nat 17452 0
iptable_mangle 2048 0
ipt_REJECT 4736 1
ipt_state 1536 3
ip_conntrack 24968 2 iptable_nat,ipt_state
iptable_filter 2048 1
ip_tables 13440 5 iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
via_rhine 15624 0
mii 3584 1 via_rhine
floppy 47440 0
sg 27552 0
scsi_mod 91344 1 sg
dm_mod 33184 0
uhci_hcd 23708 0
ehci_hcd 21896 0
button 4504 0
battery 6924 0
asus_acpi 8472 0
ac 3340 0
ipv6 184288 8
ext3 102376 2
jbd 40216 1 ext3
/var/log/messages
Extract relating to 'sound' showing any sort of failure.
udev[3134]: creating device node '/udev/snd/timer'
modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for sound_slot_1
udev[3220]: creating device node '/udev/mixer'
modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for sound_slot_1