[SLUG] Fedora Core 2 Blues Sound/Mouse

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Still no luck getting sound out of Fedora Core 2. 
running XMMS had no effect. I ran "system-config-
soundcard" via the "Run Command", and opted for the 
terminal. This function identifies the Audgy sound 
blaster, and also the built in Intel sound device which 
RedHat 9.0 had ignored. This produced the following 
message twice, upon asking it to play the test sound on 
the Audgy sound card:

"amixer: unknown playback setup 'on' .."

I noticed a note at the bottom of "/etc/modules.conf" 
which said that, for 2.6, you need to change 
"/etc/modprobe.conf" as well, while at the top of 
"/etc/modprobe.conf" was a note that, for 2.4, you need 
to change "/etc/modules.conf".

The "modules.conf" has aliases of "sound-slot-0" for 
"snd-audigy", and pre and post install commands to 
load/save the settings in "/etc/.aumixrc". The 
"modprobe.conf", on the other hand, gave an alias of 
"snd-card-0" to "snd-emu10k1", then provided install 
and remove commands, referring to the alias "sound-slot-
0" of the "modules.conf" file, and containing 
"modprobe" commands to install and remove the module, 
along with the "aumix-minimal" commands to save and 
restore the mixer settings.

I experimented with these files by changing all aliases 
to "sound-slot-0", and replacing "snd-emu10k1" with 
"snd-audigy" and stuff like that, rebooting each time, 
to no effect.

The "/dev/mixer" and "/dev/dsp" files can be accessed 
and the applications believe that they are making 
sound, but no sound is produced.

I've told the operating system to ignore the Intel 
sound device, and have commented out the corresponding 
three lines in the "modprobe.conf".

The problem I have getting the mouse to behave when 
rebooting RedHat 9.0 (Linux 2.4) has been ignored under 
this title so I'll make that the subject of a separate 
enquiry.

James Gregory wrote:
Now *that's* a fun upgrade. Can you tell us how you did it? did you just
put the CD in the drive and use the installer, or did you try using yum or
up2date or something?

Well, I tried just to "rpm -U" the "gtk 2 devel" from 
the Fedora discs, but found there were other packages 
which were dependent upon the earlier version. I 
initailly tried uninstalling these working back up a 
tree structure, untill it became too involved. I then 
decided to boot the Fedora discs to upgrade the package 
that way, however it only allowed a full upgrade, so I 
let it do the full upgrade. Oh, and it hasn't been 
"fun".

Thanks,
Greg Wood.