Crystal Semiconductor CS2436 audio card and Fedora Core 7

[El Gordo]

Hi everyone:

I am new to the forum to Linux and to Fedora. Irecently installed Fedora Core 7 and I like it a lot. I then installed to a second computer, but I am having problems with the sound card. My hardware is the following:

Dell Optiplex GX1; Crystal Semiconductor CS4236 audio board; 384Mb ram; PIII 650MHz


The problem is that the sound card seems not to work. I did the following suggested steps that I read from different forums:

logged in as root --> then selected --> system --> administration --> soundcard detection --> root password.

Selected system tab --> reload audio drivers --> rewrite configuration files.

Selected sound test and it played perfectly. Then I selected system --> personal --> volume control.

Unmuted everithing even microphone and line in. Volume control selected - CS2436B
( Alsa Mixer)

I have found 2 problems here that I dont know how to resolve:

1. I have no sound yet, I checked the speaker icon in the upper right corner and appears as muted and I did not found any way to unmute it.

2. When I reboot I have to reload the audio drivers in order to listen the test sound again.

I have not found any answer to this and it is as far I have gone using the info provided in the forums.

Does any body knows how to solve this problem?

I will really appreciate any help on this matter.


Thank you all.

[BPfedora]

which kernel are you using??

[leadgolem]

Double click on the speaker icon, go to file/change device. Try messing with the OSS mixer.

[El Gordo]

Current kernel is 2.6.22.9-91 fc7

[BPfedora]

I would suggest researching livna and alsa installs, at the very least they should get your running with the OSS driver if your primary will not function. You will need to use yum for this, if you are unaware of how to use yum you should do a search in a search engine or the forums here for the "Unofficial Fedora FAQ". It is very informative for configuring a new setup. I hope this helps, keep us posted!

[leadgolem]

Unfortunately, the fedorafaq hasn't been updated since core 6. So, using the yum repos from there would be a bad idea. A number of other things are out of date as well.

[BPfedora]

quite true! LOL my mistake! Guess someone needs to update that.... *Mental gears begin to crank*

[El Gordo]

Hi again. First I want to thank you for you help in this matter, but I am still have no solution to this problem. I tryed playing with the OSS Mixer with no results. Any other suggestions? I will appreciate.

Thanks

[leadgolem]

This is for a different chip, but take a look here. It might be helpful.