Sound in Fedora Core Vr 1

[jweric]

The problem :

I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 1 Platinum. And my MB has onboard sound. However, I have disabled the sound manualy via jumper.

So, I go to the sound card detection utility. I see that it detected 2 possible cards. I go to test the sound blaster and it doesnt work. When it says did you hear the sound? I say no. Out of curiosity, I go back and test the other card, it works (note that this is the onboard sound).

So whats the fix if their is one?

[MMYoung]

Did you disable it in the BIOS as well?

Just wondering,
MMYoung

[jweric]

Yes, I beleave I did.

When I had it working while I was running Redhat 9, but it only worked for about a day, then it stoped.

The card still works on Windows so its not the hardware, although I am suspicous about it while it runs in a game but that might be my video card as well. Speaking of which, I use the analog settings while i run in windows.

[trev4]

new to the board and may not completely understand your problem but i've extensive experience (resolved headaches) with soundcards as i have a pro audio set up. my main problem with the card not working (have on board sound, as well) came when the card was sharing resources with another device. it may not show up as a conflict, but say, in windows if the card is sharing irq's with usb, had to disable usb in bios, uninstall all drivers for the card, unplug the sound card, boot up without sound card, shut down and install the card again. i had to do this several times until the card found its own irq. once installed enabled usb. could be drivers, also. many of the drivers that come with cards are beta versions.

[MMYoung]

Originally posted by MMYoung
Did you disable it in the BIOS as well?

Just wondering,
MMYoung
Reason I asked about the BIOS setting is that I have onboard sound on my ASUS A7V8X mobo and a Soundblaster Live! sound card in a PCI slot. I didn't have to disable the jumper on my mobo, all I had to do was disable the onboard sound in the BIOS. Fedora used my SB Live with no problems, even used the audigy (snd-emu10k1) driver.

Also have you disabled PNP in the BIOS as well. Usually there is a setting that says something like "PNP OS Installed". For Windoze it's OK to say yes, for Linux however, you want to make sure that setting is NO. You want the BIOS to set up all your devices so that Linux will be able to recognize them.

BTW, I ditched Fedora, and Mandrake 9.1 for that matter, for MEPIS (http://www.mepis.org). It's based on Debian and is one of the easiest installs that I've ever experienced. All my hardware was recognized and set-up during install. You ought to give it a try.

Later,
MMYoung

[jweric]

I am semi-new to the linux experiance, so all these little tidbits are helping me out a lot.

The reason why I am using Fedora now is because I dont know much about linux, and I really cant port over to linux fully. Also I had just got a broadband connection like a month ago, so now I can download ISO's.

If I can't get this sound to work, I will try it. But I'm going to try this new info out now.

Thanks for the help so far.

[jweric]

It hasnt worked. I had PnP off all a long, as well their wasnt a feature for turning off the onboard sound at all.

I have an Asus A7V333 mobo as well if that helps out much.