[conspire] sound prob Ensoniq ES1371 on Fedora 7

[Darlene Wallach]

David Fox wrote:
>> I figure my sound card is supported since I see evidence
>> of it being recognized in the various output of cli
>> commands and in the log files I've checked.
> 
> 
> 
> It should be, but I'm unfamiliar with Ensoniq (I use Soundblaster/Creative
> Live these days). If the card is PCI it shouldn't  be difficult to have
> native support for
> it already. If it is ISA, then all bets are off. I once attempted to get an
> ISA based sound card to work for Bruce. I wasn't entirely successful, I
> don't recall - maybe I was :).
> 
> I used to have an ISA card (Mozart chipset) years ago. At first, getting
> support was only possible through proprietary sound drivers (which I gladly
> paid for, only $20 yearly) since they worked well. Eventually it became
> unnecessary (about the time I switched to Mandrake, from Red Hat).
> 
> My recommendation is similar, it seems, to Heather's. Rather than attempt to
> get your sound card to work with YouTube straightaway, try to see if the
> card itself is supported. Try playing a test wav or mp3 file with the
> available tools, such as mplayer, or even more low-level, try 'play' from a
> command line with a wav or mp3 file (play is a common-enough alias/symlink
> for an incarnation of 'sox'. If your card is supported, you should be
> getting some output when you do this. Even if you can't hear anything, there
> is a sign that the card is working (otherwise you'd get cryptic kernel
> messages, :"device not found", that sort of thing. If it looks like the file
> is playing, the next thing to do is to check your mixer settings, cabling of
> sound card output (are the cables going to the right device -- is that
> output device working, that sort of thing).
> 

What I tried to point out in my email is I don't
understand why my sound card was detected and I
heard sound during installation. I tried detecting
the sound card after installation and could hear
sound. Now I cannot hear sound when I use
system -> administration -> soundcard detection

I'm trying to figure out how to get that working
again. Then I'll worry about hearing mp3, wav,
seeing and hearing youtube.

Darlene

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