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Can not find soundcard

I have just installed Oracle enterprise Linux 5.
Beforehand I had Mandrive 2008 which could configure my soundcard.
However enterprise Linux 5 can't.

Any ideas why

Code:

 /sbin/lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)

00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection (rev 02)

00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)

00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)

00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)

00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)

00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller (rev 02)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV610 video device [Radeon HD 2400 PRO]

Code:

  uname -r

2.6.18-194.el5PAE

Hi davholla, Welcome to LQ. The system does see your card.

Quote:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)

What steps have you tried to configure it?

Good luck. ;-)

Sorry you are right it does. I was tried when I created the original post.
My soundcard does not make any sound. I have checked the connections and it did work with previous versions of Linux in the past.

I think the problem is with pulse audio ( I could be wrong but I think this has been the solution in the past).
However when I try to install this I get this

Code:

yum list | grep pulse

Bad id for repo: fresh rpms, byte =  5

I have got experience with Linux but with very little of installing software on Red Hat based systems (which Oracle linux is).
With Mandriva I could have installed this by now but I think I need to add new repositories to my package manager(?)

One of these should get you going in the right direction.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/to...up-085606.html

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel5-...epository.html

Good luck. ;-)

Thanks I will try that tonight/tomorrow.

I really need some luck with this.

Let us know if you have any further trouble.

Good luck. ;-)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peacedog (Post 4290860)

One of these should get you going in the right direction.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel5-...epository.html

Good luck. ;-)

That was quite helpful

Quote:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/to...up-085606.html

Less so as I don't have a support licence.

I added this repository
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
And now I can use a lot more packages.
However I really want to add the base centos repositories, as that should give me more packages. Do you know where they are?

Is this what you're looking for?

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories

Good luck. ;-)

Yes and no - surprisingly although I seem to have lots of packages avaliable pulse audio - which I think will fix my sound issue - is not one of them :(.

Quote:

Originally Posted by davholla (Post 4292854)

I don't have a support licence.
However I really want to add the base centos repositories, as that should give me more packages. Do you know where they are?

Just a thought, but why are you using Oracle (a new Microsoft in the making), and without support at that?

It is not a good idea to mix repositories that are not designed to be mixed. CentOS is supported by its own repository (try googling), epel (from Fedora), and RPMfusion. Their offerings will only be safe for Oracle Linux in so far as Oracle is an exact match for Red Hat. Are you sure it is? Are you sure it will continue to be?

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidMcCann (Post 4294238)

Good question. Normally it would be a bad idea.
However I want to install Oracle R12 on my home PC.
Rather stupidly I gave away my old one which would have been perfect. Although for reasons of space,even if I had 2 PCs I would have problems using both of them -my house is very crowded.

PS I did try googling Centos and I have access to some of the repositories but sadly no pulseaudio.

Also Oracle is nothing like Microsoft - Larry would never give his money to charity!

Oracle and Red Hat repositories

Quote:

Their offerings will only be safe for Oracle Linux in so far as Oracle is an exact match for Red Hat. Are you sure it is? Are you sure it will continue to be?

Apparently, the two Linuces will not continue to be exact matches. Not, at least, if Red Hat has anything to say about it:
Red Hat Stops shipping Kernel Changes as Patches

You could always compile from source if you have the patience to grab all of the dependencies and you truly believe it will correct your problem.

http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/DownloadPulseAudio

Good luck. ;-)

You can have PulseAudio with CentOS: it's in the EPEL repository.