KDE Sound

[Byron L. Sonne]

>>   I reinstalled Fedora Core 3 and got my sound card working again.  Now, it is not working again.

In the past I've had problems, but once KDE was started up I fired up a 
term and did '/etc/init.d/artsd restart' or perhaps it was 
'/etc/init.d/alsasound restart'... not sure.

I don't think you can clear the soundcard off the culprit list yet; if 
you rebooted and it still doesn't work that isn't a good sign. Then 
again, perhaps kde borks stuff on load and doesn't unbork on exit. 
Still, that's odd.

Check how you have alsa and oss stuff in your kernel; some stuff 
shouldn't be built in and should remain as modules. Investigate how any 
OSS compatibility stuff is installed.

If you replace the soundcard with one of a different make & model, do 
you still suffer these problems? Try that - that should help further 
eliminate the sound card as the source of the problem.

If you have modules for the soundcard loaded, figure out which ones they 
are then take a look at the module code, and compare the revision and 
make/model info with that reported by lspci (-x option if I remember). 
Perhaps you're straddling a line of flakiness when it comes to drivers. 
I've run into this, and it's amazing how a 1 or 2 byte change and a 
module recompile can make a huge difference.

Check your BIOS for int/dma/etc options too, blah, blah, blah... :)

Regards,
Byron


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