[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora Sound Problems

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:28:42PM -0600, terry wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I installed Fedora it found all parts of my computer, except for my
> soundcard. So I ran sndconfig and it detected my card as an Intel Corp.
> 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller. And when it tries to test the card it
> produces this error:

Fairly good output, though I would have liked to see all of lspci myself.
AC97 does in fact cover many onboard audio cards... Unfortunately the OSS
AC97 driver does not work with many newer ones (particularly the realtek
chip ) even though it identifies.  There are two options,1)  look for a
proprietary vendor driver (exists for some motherboards particularly the
nVidia nforce 2/3 chipset based ones). 2) Install the ALSA packages, as
ALSA seems to support most of the current chips without issue.  ALSA will
be default for audio support in FC2.  Exact motherboard model can alow for
a better answer.

Thanks,
Justin