[PlanetCCRMA] ALSA/Soundcard problems

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 22:48 -0500, Tim Boulette wrote:
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 20:42 -0500, Tim Boulette wrote:
> >>Mark Knecht wrote:
> >>>On 11/6/05, Tim Boulette <tboulet1@maine.rr.com> wrote:
> >>>>I'm a complete newbie to Linux and PlanetCCRMA, so I'm hoping you all can
> >>>>bear with me if this is a simple question and I'm just missing it.  I'll
> >>>>gladly accept all the help I can get.
> >>>>
> >>>>I've installed Fedora Core 3 (in fact, I've pretty much followed the
> >>>>installation instructions from the Planet CCRMA website (http://ccrma
> >>>>stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/installtwosix.html) verbatim.
> >>>>
> >>>>My soundcard is a M-Audio Delta 66.  (Also have a VIA AC'97 on the mainboard
> >>>>which I don't really use.)  The Delta 66 is working fine in WinXP.  During
> >>>>FC3 installation, setup seems to identify the card, but when I test it I get
> >>>>no sound.
> >>>>
> >>>>I've proceeded with installation anyway, hoping to fix the problem later,
> >>>>but have been unsuccessful so far.  I've tried updating all FC3 components;
> >>>>manually installing ALSA; and I've even tried alsaconf to manually set the
> >>>>Delta 66 as my card -- all to no avail.
> >>>>
> >>>>Can anybody give me some ideas about how to solve this problem?
> >>>>
> >>>Folks would like to see your /etc/modprobe.conf file I'm sure. Also
> >>>the output of lsmod, and possibly the output of
> >>>
> >>>cat /proc/asound/cards
> >>>
> >>>One thing some new folks miss is unmuting the card. Have you ran
> >>>alsamixer and made sure that the card has volume up on the master and
> >>>PCM cannels? (I'm assuming alsamixer works on that card...)
> >>>
> >>Here's the output of cat /proc/asound/cards:
> >>
> >>0 [M66            ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Delta 66
> >>                     M Audio Delta 66 at 0xb000, irq 12
> >>1 [rev50          ]: VIA686A - VIA 82C686A/B rev50
> >>                     VIA 82C686A/B rev50 at 0xa000, irq 12
> >>
> >>Hmm.  Interesting that the IRQ's are the same--again, they work in 
> >>Windows XP.  I've made sure the card isn't muted (in fact, in 
> >>frustration I'd turned every slider up full).  Peter, I'm NOT (yet) 
> >>using envy24control.  That may be the answer, but (I'm embarassed to 
> >>say) I can't figure out how to install it. 
> >
> >It is part of the alsa-tools package, most probably you already have it
> >installed ("rpm -q alsa-tools" to find out - "apt-get install
> >alsa-tools" to install it). 
> >
> >If you have it "envy24control" will start it from a terminal. 
> >
> I'm sorry -- I just realized I hadn't reinstalled the planetccrma 
> package in my latest go-round.  Having done that, I now have the 
> envy24control mixer running.  Still no sound, though.

There is a tab with sliders for the analog outputs, are those up?
What is it your are using to test sound output?

-- Fernando