I RECENTLY LOADED FEDORA LINUX ALL 4CD/S(FULL INSTALL).
but i am getting no sound,no proper help documentation.what should i do. Please help.

What do you mean by "no proper help documentation".

There are the texinfo manuals, the man pages, and a plethora of information on the Fedora website, as well as under /usr/share/doc. There are also millions of resources on the web - search Google for "Linux Tutorial", "Linux Administration", "Shell Scripting", etc, etc. Also; these forums are a vast source of information. Try the search function, check our FAQ and tutorials sections. The Linux Documentation Project (tldp.org) has everything you're liable to need too.

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ZB

I'm not on FC4 right now, but you should be able to dig through the Fedora menu (akin to the Windows START menu) and look for "Soundcard Detection". In my menu hierarchy it's under:

Applications | System Settings | Soundcard Detection

Try that and if there are any errors report them back here. If there aren't any errors and it says it detected your sound card but you still don't hear anything then you will want to check your ALSA mixer settings. If you have any further questions about that, just reply here.

you may have to execute this command:
#system-config-soundcard

or execute:
#lspci

With this command you can verify the hardware installed... and you can see the name of your soundcard and try to install the correct module...

I hope can solve your problem...

Hello Sir, I am a newbie. What I wanted to tell was, help in terminal run fine using the man command '"man .." runs fine. But when I try to find help using the GUI,I don't get a proper database to search .Thanks for the advice.

Thanks for the prompt reply.
Hi, Under the sound car detection , it does play a sound.
Details are: vendor:NVidia,model:Corporation nForce audio,module:snd-intel8xo.
But it does not play mp3.
While playing mp3,The error messages given are
1)Missing component audio/mp3.
2)There is no plug in to handle mp3
3)Alsa device "defaults" had an error.

#system-config-soundcard lists 2 errors and then opens the sound detection card applet which plays the sample sound file.


Please tell me what to What should I do now.

The Fedora project has dropped MP3 support in their bundled players due to licensing issues. You have a few options:

You could go to: http://www.xmms.org/download.php and use XMMS to play MP3s. You may need to compile the program itself. You could also try Xine: http://xinehq.de or MPLayer: http://mplayerhq.hu

The bundled media players in Fedora only play unrestricted audio formats. It's basically stupid legal issues that are messing with MP3 support. I imagine you have a collection of MP3s you want to play. I would suggest trying one of the above players. If you don't want to compile anything, you could also try: http://www.real.com and get the latest RealPlayer10 for Linux. It's better than the Windows version because it doesn't load extra programs you don't want and it doesn't blast you with ads. It will play a decent selection of files including MP3 and Ogg Vorbis.

Finally, if you rip your own stuff, you might want to give Sound Juicer a try (comes bundled with Fedora) and rip your music to Ogg Vorbis. It compresses better than MP3 and can be resampled in real time for streaming at a lower bitrate without needing to reencode your files at different bitrates. If you have an MP3 player that you load music onto, then you might want to at least try the FLAC format for archiving on your computer and then convert that to MP3 as needed with the 'lame' utility located at: http://lame.sourceforge.net/

This isn't a limitation of Linux, it's a limitation of the licensing for MP3. And sadly, money and lawyers make the world go round today...