Newbie problem: Hoary live makes sound, installed version silent

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I just looked again.  Nothing there.  You had me going for a minute, though,
and I thought I might have goofed up.

I read this group on gmail, and archive everything.  Gmail search on
"hoary sound" gives some hits, but nothing like my situation, looking back
as far as June.  I do NOT have a problem with installed software -- it all seems
to be there.  My devices seem to BE recognized (judging from the installed
modules).   My hardware is okay, judging from the sound I get from Hoary Live.

I don't mind RTFM'ing, if I can find the FM.  I don't mind searching the
archives, but there's nothing recent that pops out at me.  Certainly nothing
in the last day, or the last week.

So: can somebody be a bit more constructive, or suggest a better search?

++ kevin


On 8/26/05, Alvin Thompson <alvin-ubuntu at thompsonlogic.com> wrote:
> i am NOT going to answer this question 3 times in one day and 4 times in
> a week. read the archives, please.
> 
> -alvin
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 12:39 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > I've been puzzled about linux sound from the beginning.  Now I really want it,
> > and it's got me stumped.  I could use some help.
> >
> > When I boot my Hoary live disk, it comes up loud.
> > When I boot the same kernel from my hard-disk installation, I can't get it
> > so so much as squeak.  Here's what I've done so far to no avail:
> >
> > I've visited Ssytem -> Preferences -> Sound -> SoundEvents, and even
> > if I locate a .wav and assign it, "play" produces no sound at all.  Not even
> > a click.
> >
> > I've visited Applications->Sound+Video -> Volume Control and unmuted the
> > playback stuff and set the volume controls mid-range.  No help.
> >
> > I've compared the outputs of lsmod, and while there are some differences,
> > it appears all the sound stuff is loaded.  Here's an extract of the hard-drive
> > version:
> >
> > snd_fm801              18052  1
> > snd_tea575x_tuner       3904  1 snd_fm801
> > videodev                9792  1 snd_tea575x_tuner
> > snd_ac97_codec         74144  1 snd_fm801
> > snd_pcm_oss            52132  1
> > snd_mixer_oss          19680  1 snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_pcm                94696  3 snd_fm801,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_page_alloc          9732  1 snd_pcm
> > snd_opl3_lib           10720  1 snd_fm801
> > snd_timer              25060  2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
> > snd_hwdep               9380  1 snd_opl3_lib
> > snd_mpu401_uart         7680  1 snd_fm801
> > snd_rawmidi            24480  1 snd_mpu401_uart
> > snd_seq_device          8460  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
> > snd                    55012  11 snd_fm801,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mi
> > xer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi
> > ,snd_seq_device
> > soundcore              10016  2 snd
> > i2c_piix4               8560  0
> > i2c_core               22320  1 i2c_piix4
> >
> >
> >
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> > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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