Afternoon,
I recently upgraded a machine to CentOS 4.0 and it has two sound cards: built-in VIA, Cmedia PCI card. The OS recognizes both and I can use the tool, system-config-soundcard to test them. However, I can't seem to get any sound out of the VIA card, but the Cmedia plays the test sound just fine. The problem is that I can't get any sound apps to use the Cmedia card, particularly xmms. Any hints or helpful comments?
TIA!
Jeff
Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
Afternoon,
I recently upgraded a machine to CentOS 4.0 and it has two sound cards: built-in VIA, Cmedia PCI card. The OS recognizes both and I can use the tool, system-config-soundcard to test them. However, I can't seem to get any sound out of the VIA card, but the Cmedia plays the test sound just fine. The problem is that I can't get any sound apps to use the Cmedia card, particularly xmms. Any hints or helpful comments?
I'd guess xmms (and other apps) are simply attempting to use the first configured sound card. If you can't specify different output device in your applications, maybe you can try playing with /etc/modprobe.conf to switch the order of the cards. Editing alias lines and swapping snd-card-0 and snd-card-1, and rebooting should do the trick.
It will not make VIA card work, but at least Cmedia will be the primary sound card (and used by all apps by default).
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
Afternoon,
I recently upgraded a machine to CentOS 4.0 and it has two sound cards: built-in VIA, Cmedia PCI card. The OS recognizes both and I can use the tool, system-config-soundcard to test them. However, I can't seem to get any sound out of the VIA card, but the Cmedia plays the test sound just fine. The problem is that I can't get any sound apps to use the Cmedia card, particularly xmms. Any hints or helpful comments?
I'd guess xmms (and other apps) are simply attempting to use the first configured sound card. If you can't specify different output device in your applications, maybe you can try playing with /etc/modprobe.conf to switch the order of the cards. Editing alias lines and swapping snd-card-0 and snd-card-1, and rebooting should do the trick.
It will not make VIA card work, but at least Cmedia will be the primary sound card (and used by all apps by default).
Good idea! (Sorry my brain seems to be in park today). BTW - this worked just fine.
Jeff
disable the builtin audio in the BIOS
On Mon, 30 May 2005, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
Afternoon,
I recently upgraded a machine to CentOS 4.0 and it has two sound cards: built-in VIA, Cmedia PCI card. The OS recognizes both and I can use the tool, system-config-soundcard to test them. However, I can't seem to get any sound out of the VIA card, but the Cmedia plays the test sound just fine. The problem is that I can't get any sound apps to use the Cmedia card, particularly xmms. Any hints or helpful comments?
TIA!
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