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I just installed red hat 8.0 and the sound doesn't work. Its detecting my card but have no sound. When I try to go to volume control, it gives me an eoor saying it could not open the audio device.
Hi face_master,
Try loggin on as root, and seeing if the sound works, sometimes the permissions on the sound device aren't set up for normal user accounts.
Otherwise, check the settings for sound , and make sure it is pointing to the correct device.
It could be a possibility that it is installed but red hat has not discovered where it is/is pointing to the wrong device.
You will need to send more information in your next post. Regarding, what type of soundcard you have, what your sound options are. what steps you went through to install your soundcard etc.
Hi,
In the control panel there is a sound section, first you have to find out weather or not your sound card is actually working I guess. I am not entirely sure how to do this with red hat.
okay, if there is no device, then maybe you haven't compiled support for it in to the kernel, or are missing the *correct module* do you know exactly what the sound card is, ie the make model and generic name. for example your sound card could be the 82801DB AC'97 Audio. I am not sure if this is correct. I'm not a big RedHat user but under debian I would prolly need to *insmod* the correct module for the sound card, or compile the kernel with support for my particular soundcard.
Now from what you have posted above, it looks as though you have already got some drivers/modules and things there with your soundcard, so I am pretty much stumped.
I recommend physically looking for information on the soundcard itsealf like the model number, and then from there do a search on google for anyone else who has had the same/similar problem. I usually try words like <name of hardware> <distro name> howto
I remeber in Mandrake 9.0, I had the same problem but I was playing with the hardware options where you select what driver you would like to use for each device, and it started to work. Is there a similar thing in RedHat?
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