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Howtos — No sound in Fedora 9

This document describes the procedure on how to enable ALSA to work with Fedora 9 (2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64) installed on Asus P5GC-MX/1333 motherboard.

OS used: Linux (Fedora 9); tools used: alsa-driver, alsa-utils, alsa-bin, and kernel-devel.

Remove existing ALSA tools out from Fedora 9

• To remove alsa tools, execute these:
  # rpm -e --nodeps alsa-utils
  # rpm -e --nodeps alsa-lib
  # rpm -e --nodeps alsa-plugin-pulseaudio

Prepare new alsa-driver tools

• Download alsa-driver.x.x.x.bz2 at: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Download.
• Install alsa-driver.x.x.x.bz2 by executing these:
  $ tar xjf alsa-driver.x.x.x.bz2
  $ cd alsa-driver.x.x.x
  $ ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-oss=yes
  $ make
  # make install
  # ./snddevices
  
• Create /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base file and add this line:
  options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-6ch-dig

Prepare new alsa-lib tools

• Download alsa-lib.x.x.x.bz2 at: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Download.
• Install alsa-lib.x.x.x.bz2 by executing these:
  $ tar xjf alsa-lib.x.x.x.bz2
  $ cd alsa-lib.x.x.x
  $ ./configure
  $ make
  # make install
• Default installation stores library file at /usr/lib directory. Execute the following to make library file viewable by Fedora 9:
  # ln -sf /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 /lib64/libasound.so.2
  # ln -sf /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 /lib64/libasound.so.2.0.0

Prepare new alsa-utils tools

• Download alsa-utils.x.x.x.bz2 at: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Download.
• Install alsa-utils.x.x.x.bz2 by executing these:
  $ tar xjf alsa-utils.x.x.x.bz2
  $ cd alsa-utils.x.x.x
  $ ./configure
  $ make
  # make install