[catalepsic]

I have just installed fedora 4 on my compaq m2000 notebook, which has an intel sound card. The problem is that I am getting no sound even if I mess with the controls of alsamixer. The sound card is recognized but nothing happens. When I play the test sound I get the error listed below.

amixer: Unable to find simple control 'PCM-2',0

amixer: Unable to find simple control 'DRC Range',0

Does the default sound driver not work with my card?
And if so how come it detects it.

[lynch]

Have you tried running sndconfig from the command line?
lynch

[catalepsic]

when I type sndconfig I get a command not found (even when I try under root).

[lynch]

Try typing /sbin/sndconfig.

[catalepsic]

same results. bash: /sbin/sndconfig: no such file or directory.

[lynch]

Try logging in as root and try again. Unless you already were root.

[catalepsic]

I am going to elaborate things here so that we can be on the same page.
First of all when I start the system I can see and hear the system initializing the hardware by a quick flash of the mute led as well as a quick low thump coming from the speakers.
also when the system tries to start alsa it says alsasound allready running or something similar to that. when I log on to the computer either as root or if I "su -" from a user terminal. and run "sndconfig" or "/sbin/sndconfig" I get command not found. when I try to detect sound devices "system-config-soundcard" I can see it detects my soundcard but when I atempt to play the test sound the damn thing hangs (just that window).
lsby a quick flash of the mute led as well as a quick low thump coming from the speakers.
also when the system tries to start alsa it says alsasound allready running or something similar to that. when I log on to the computer either as root or if I "su -" from a user terminal. and run "sndconfig" or "/sbin/sndconfig" I get command not found. when I try to detect sound devices "system-config-soundcard" I can see it detects my soundcard but when I atempt to play the test sound the damn thing hangs (just that window).
"lsmod" produces:

Module                  Size  Used by
i915                   19009  1
drm                    70101  2 i915
parport_pc             28933  0
lp                     13001  0
parport                40585  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                29253  2
rfcomm                 42333  0
l2cap                  30661  5 rfcomm
bluetooth              56133  4 rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc                167813  1
pcmcia                 29025  2
ipt_REJECT              5569  1
ipt_state               1857  1
ip_conntrack           41497  1 ipt_state
iptable_filter          2881  1
ip_tables              19521  3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
dm_mod                 58101  0
video                  15941  0
button                  6609  0
battery                 9413  0
ac                      4805  0
md5                     4033  1
ipv6                  268097  8
ohci1394               41353  0
ieee1394              304441  1 ohci1394
yenta_socket           21449  1
rsrc_nonstatic         12737  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            50909  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
uhci_hcd               35152  0
ehci_hcd               41037  0
i2c_i801                8781  0
i2c_core               21569  1 i2c_i801
snd_intel8x0m          19589  0
snd_intel8x0           34689  1
snd_ac97_codec         75961  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_seq_dummy           3653  0
snd_seq_oss            37057  0
snd_seq_midi_event      9153  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                62289  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          8781  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            51185  0
snd_mixer_oss          17857  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm               100169  4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              33605  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    57157  10 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              10913  2 snd
snd_page_alloc          9669  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
8139too                30017  0
mii                     5441  1 8139too
joydev                  9601  0
ext3                  132553  1
jbd                    86233  1 ext3

"lspci" produces:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
02:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller

I hope that will be enough for anyone to help me?

[catalepsic]

Well after a week an a half of searching through google and reading through forums. I could no longer take this situation and so I installed suse 10.0. (everything worked great out the box) The funny thing is that, now I think I finally found a solution to the problem. (I might even install fedora 4 on another machine just to test this) While looking for xmms mp3 plugins I stumbled into this.

Note: If your Fedora distribution is fresh out of the box, you will probably have to make /dev/dsp be owned by yourself before you can play any sounds at all.

I hope this is useful to anyone that might be ready to launch their system into orbit out of rage just like I was.