FC 3 - Nvidia Sound not working

[nutta_guy]

Hi Guys,

Always had problems with my Nnvidia sound and Fedora but simply can't get it working in FC3. In FC2, before I upgraded it, it did not work, so I dounloaded the sound driver from teh Nvidia webside ran the su NVIDIA... command, it installed and I modified my modprobe.conf to reflect nvsound.ko as the module not the i810. This worked a treat...

I now have FC3, same problem with the sound but installing the Nvidia driver doesn't solve the sound issue. I have run the SH NVIDIA..etc command, it says there is no precompiled driver so sets about compiling one (I do have the kernel sources installed - well I assume because I did a workstation install and it does not create an error message). Once that;s done I modify the modprobe.conf and do a insmod NVSOUND.KO command to load the module then still no sound...

Here is my info:

[root@localhost oss]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce CPU bridge (rev b2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2)00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2)00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01aa (rev b2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce ISA Bridge (rev c3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI System Management (rev c1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev c3)
00:03.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev c3)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Ethernet Controller (rev c2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio (rev c2)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI-to-PCI bridge (rev c2)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce IDE (rev c3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce AGP to PCI Bridge (rev b2)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3)
05:06.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
05:07.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 24)
05:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link)

and..

/etc/modprobe.conf

alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 orinoco_pci
alias eth2 forcedeth
alias snd-card-0 nvsound
#alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
#options snd-card-0 index=0
#install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
#remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias usb-controller ohci-hcd
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394


Let me know if anyone can help!

Cheers, John

[Stormblazer]

you installed the nForce driver, not the nVidia video driver, right?
the nForce driver filename doesn't start with NVIDIA, but NFORCE, so I think maybe you installed the wrong one.

[nutta_guy]

Yes, I downloaded the joint LAN/Audio driver and only installed the audio driver. Not meaning to be rude but clearly from my original post I have successfully installed the same driver before but it's a problem getting it to work with FC3. I may be reasonably new to linux but I'm far from stupid...

[PeanutthaKid]

I'm having the same type of problem. This is my first nForce board running under Linux. I've downloaded the drivers for both my GeForce FX 5200 and got them running with my Mdk 10.1 and I also downloaded the nForce platform drivers. I got the network drivers working, but I get an error like his.... Some programs will actually use the correct sound settings, which is odd, but everything else freaks out or does nothing. Kaffeine Media Player will play sound and video, but another Media Player such as Amarok will do nothing.

[imdeemvp]

are you guys using AMD 64? if you there are major issues with it since for "me" i consider it to me beta still

i read many users having issues with the sound drivers...

[PeanutthaKid]

I'm using an Athlon XP 2000+ but I've done a little reading and the whole issue with the nForce sound driver is that it's OSS and not ALSA. nVidia is working on a driver suitable for ALSA because so many distros use it instead. Who knows how long it will be.