I have an intel 865 GBF motherboard and have RH9 installed along with win xp.
My problem is that i am unable to configure my ONBOARD sound in RH.
Apart from running sndconfig...i have no idea how to get the sound work in linux as i am a beginner.
help will be appreciated.

what is the output of lsmod?

I dont know what this command this and what it is for.The o/p is :

Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5148 1 (autoclean)
vfat 13196 1 (autoclean)
fat 40120 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
ppp_deflate 4504 0 (autoclean)
zlib_deflate 21560 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
ppp_async 9888 1 (autoclean)
ppp_generic 27392 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate ppp_async]
slhc 6844 1 (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
appletalk 31268 1 (autoclean)
ipx 26852 1 (autoclean)
parport_pc 19236 1 (autoclean)
lp 9188 0 (autoclean)
parport 39040 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13684 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ipt_REJECT 3928 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 15864 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
sg 37580 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 18168 0 (autoclean)
microcode 5184 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12432 0
scsi_mod 111256 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35772 0
cdrom 34176 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
mousedev 5656 1
hid 22308 0 (unused)
input 6208 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 27404 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 20680 0 (unused)
usbcore 82624 1 [hid usb-uhci ehci-hcd]
ext3 73376 1
jbd 56272 1 [ext3]

The command shows what modules are running
Go to www.alsa-project.org and download the latest ALSA and install that

I checked the site but it doesn't support my 865 chipset .
??

what is the manufacturer of your motherboard? Look on their site to see what the sound chipset is (most likely and AC'97 compatable). Or you could look in your XP device manager to see what the manufacturer is.

For intel 865 use the i820 http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...odule=intel8x0