CM8738 in FC4

[chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org]

I'm okay with this - I responded to my own post about a week ago. I simply 
ran 'yum install alsa-driver' (and it installed asla-driver-devel as well). 
The card works fine now - youtube plays fine. 

Thanks, 

Chris 

Lennart Sorensen writes: 

> 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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