CM8738 in FC4

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:51:08PM -0500, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
> I want to get my wife's FC4 computer playing sound. I'm not going to try 
> anything heroic like the failed e-mu1212m / alsa troubleshoot on the 
> ubuntu machine, but she bought a pair of computer speakers and would 
> like to be able to play mp3's and play youtube videos. Of course, sound 
> is not coming out of the speakers.
> 
> system-config-soundcard detects:
> 
> Vendor: C-Media
> Model: Electronics Inc. CM8738
> Module: snd-cmipci
> 
> I hit the 'Play test sound' button and system-config-soundcard freezes.
> 
> lspci sees the card as well:
> 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
> 
> Can't I just download an alsa that will work with FC4 and then untar it 
> and run an executable? Editing the repository file in ubuntu didn't work 
> for me. I'm not sure I want to do the equivalent on this machine in FC4. 
> It's the administration production machine for our business and with tax 
> time coming up I don't want to tell her I pooched the OS to get youtube 
> playing.
> 
> And yeah, I know, FC4 sucks and it's obsolete and I should switch to 
> distro x, y or z because it's great and everything will just "work". 
> Well my experience tells me this is not so, so I would like to make it 
> work without any latest'n'greatest stuff.

Since alsa to some extent has to be part of the kernel (drivers are like
that), you can not just upgrade it trivially.

You could always go to a newer FC, althought I get the impression FC
upgrades can be as hard to make work as switching to a different
distribution all together. :)

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