You could try the snd-intel8x0 driver. That one is from the ALSA project. You may or may not have to edit the modules.conf or modprobe.conf file though, I just don't know how mandrake handles that.

HI,
Have you checked DMESG to see if the driver is loading, or giving an error?

I'm pretty new. Is that a command?

The commands is 'dmesg'. The output is long, so remove everything you think is not important.

Did you ever check another sound source. Like an mp3 or something?

It is possible that the CD to sound board cable is unhooked.

When I go into Configuration->Sound, it gives me the option to enable sound events at startup and for other events... It gives you an option to play the sound before enabling it, and when I click play still nothing... They are .wav files installed on this system.

Well darn. So, much for the easy answer.

Another obvious answer:

Do you have your cdrom plugged into your sound card? If you don't have a direct connection (hardware to hardware), you'll need to use a software intermediary. There is an xmms plugin for this.

Hi,
Don't worry about the wire connecting your cdrom to your mobo I never connect it and I never have to worry about getting sound from my cdrom.
Type dmesg in a terminal window, and look for anything that looks like a message from the alsa server, or anything to do with the word sound or the module your sound card used. I think you know the module since you typed it previsouly i think. To make searching though dmesg easy do the following.
Type all of the following as the root user

/etc/init.d/alsasound restart
dmesg

Any output from alsa to dmesg should be the last few lines in the file which will be what you will be looking at when you type dmesg.

If you have never had to connect your wire then you already had some kind of software help regardless of whether or not you knew it. Its automatic in windows, and possible automatic on some linux distros, but I had to hook up mine. Besides, running it direct into the soundcard frees up a lot of CPU cycles that would otherwise be used for converting the data.

I'm having a similar issue - my pcm is muted and locked so I also can't get any sound. Bump for any more info on this problem

Try muting 'External' in alsamixer.

Do I have to totally log out and then log back in as root to be able to put those commands in as the root user?

This is what came up the last few lines, I did this as a regular user....


inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 15:29:58 Mar 14 2003
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH5 found at IO 0xedc0 and 0xee00, MEM 0xfebffa00 and 0xfebff900, IRQ 17
i810: Intel ICH5 mmio at 0xe8924a00 and 0xe8926900
i810_audio: Primary codec has ID 2
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
i810_audio: Connection 0 with codec id 2
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS112 (Unknown)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 2 supports AMAP, total channels = 6
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).

OK, It sounds like the modules have definitely loaded.

Try entering the following commands in a Konsole (don't think it needs to be superuser):

Only if the above doesn't succeed on its own:

Then, to test the sound:

You should hear a popping sound if all went well. If you heard absolutely nothing at all, or if you received another, please report your findings.

Good luck!

btw, if you get any permission denied errors (don't think you will...) type "su" to become root, then try them again.