Ok I jsut installed the OSS drivers. Now I need to turn the soundon. The commands: soundconf@ soudoff@ soundon@ are all located in /usr/bin. Im root in /bin trying to turn on sound.

Ive tried several different commands but Im getting command not found errors. Does anyone know the exact cmd line? Im new to unix term cmds.

I dont have that distro, but
sounds like /usr/bin is not in your path, or you would be able to just type

soundon

if the commands are there then you should be able to run them like this

/usr/bin/soundon

also you can check the links like this

ls -l /usr/bin/soundon

see what it's pointing to

if you are in /usr/bin try this

./soundon


also you state you are in /bin but the files are in /usr/bin which is a different folder

Hey I got the command to run but no sound... I even tried to configure it using drakeconfig and soundconfig but no good.

I see you have exp or are using RH 7.2. If you by chance have the SBLive card and are using OSS I could reburn the iso image for RH. If you think you could instruct me through a snd install and config using RH id be willing to do it...

I do not have a SBLive, I have an awe64gold but it is in my slack machine, but it uses a different driver.

lsmod will tell you what modules are loaded

yours should work with sndconfig if you install redhat

what error do you get when you run sndconfig.

lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: init_module: no such device
lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: insmod
lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o,gz failed
lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: insmod sound-slot-0 failed

These are the errors when I run sndconfig.

put this line in /etc/modules.conf

alias sound emu10k1

then look in /etc/group

if you have audio:x:81: then you add users to the line to let them use sound

audio:x:81:username




also try modprobe emu10k1




another note:

I think digital output is not supported by the driver, try the analog outputs

Heres a copy of my /etc/modules.conf

alias char-major-14 off
alias sound off
alias midi off
alias sound-slot-0 off
alias sound-service-0-0 off
alias sound-service-0-1 off
alias sound-service-0-3 off
alias sound-service-0-8 off
alias sound-service-0-11 off
alias sound-service-0-12 off
alias sound-slot-1 off
alias sound-service-1-0 off
alias sound-service-1-1 off
alias sound-service-1-3 off
alias sound-service-1-8 off
alias sound-service-1-11 off
alias sound-service-1-12 off
alias sound-slot-2 off
alias sound-service-2-0 off
alias sound-service-2-1 off
alias sound-service-2-3 off
alias sound-service-2-8 off
alias sound-service-2-11 off
alias sound-service-2-12 off
alias sound-slot-3 off
alias sound-service-3-0 off
alias sound-service-3-1 off
alias sound-service-3-3 off
alias sound-service-3-8 off
alias sound-service-3-11 off
alias sound-service-3-12 off
alias char-major-116 off
alias snd-card-0 off
alias snd-card-1 off
alias snd-card-2 off
alias snd-card-3 off
alias snd-card-4 off
alias char-major-116 off
alias char-major-116 off
alias sound emu10k1

pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias usb-interface usb-uhci
probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias eth0 tulip

I added the alias... at the bottom.

I checked the /etc/group: audio:x:81syklops
...so that fine.

I ran modprode emu10k1 and got a bunch of errors again.
This was part of it:
"hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters."

It looks like maybe I maybe getting an interrupt with my PCI snd card. So I checked my proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 201790 XT-PIC timer
1: 3204 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
7: 2 XT-PIC parport0
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 1579 XT-PIC usb-uhci, eth0
11: 50264 XT-PIC SB Live
12: 75280 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 6952 XT-PIC ide0
15: 6 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0

It appears my SBLive has an uninterrupted channel...
Back to square one.

How and where can I check to see if I have my sound on digital or analogue outputs?
And is there a fail safe way to check for sound in the terminal. A command that would play a little tune or something? Thank you.

I don't know but that sure is a lot of sound stuff turned off in the modules.conf file

could that be causing a problem?

Not sure I believe the oss did that when I was configuring and installing the driver.

I think I had better luck with ALSA drivers. Going to reinstall and start from new. If the alsa starts to hang up, ill post a new topic.