My soundcard(VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller module:via82cxxx_audio) isnt working with linux's Cd or Audio players. I went to soundcard detection and did play test sound but nothing came out. My speakers are Altec Lansing speakers. They are hooked in too. Can you help me?

do you know if youre using alsa or oss? type lsmod in the console and post the results here.

it says," bash: ismod: command not found"

I meant to say lsmod not ismod

i have that chip VIA had linux drivers on there site it might help to install those

good luck

I tried to get their drivers, but they were all .gz files and it came up to say, "alsaconf" so i'm guessing, LavaDevil94, its an alsa

hmm... issue these commands, then try your audio again:
killall arts
killall esd
these will kill any desktop environment sound server. kdes is aRts, gnomes is ESD

nope, still nothing out of my speakers

have u tried
redhat-config-soundcard to check the sound card is actually recognised?
check ur
/var/log/messages to see what feedback u get from trying to run test sound
Try checking your motherboard BIOS settings for IRQs and
preserve IRQ 3 and 4 for serial or ISA. The soundcard driver should be
able to share it's IRQ with another device.
U could maybe also check your system bios plug and play and set your bios to a plug and play os.
hope this helps

I've got a similar problem to midnightpenguin.

Here's my situation: I'm running Redhat 9 with kernel 2.4.20-8. I just installed the system yesterday.

My soundcard is Soundblaster 5.1 with emu10k1 driver.

My soundcard works fine, no problem, with full system notifications and bundled .WAV files playing fine.

But there's no CD audio. I did the lsmod after reading about that in this thread. Here's what I got:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
emu10k1 69032 1 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 13640 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
sound 74228 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
soundcore 6404 7 (autoclean) [emu10k1 sound]
parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
iptable_filter 2412 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables 15096 1 [iptable_filter]
autofs 13268 0 (autoclean) (unused)
3c2000 134852 1
sg 36524 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 18136 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12208 0
scsi_mod 107160 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35708 0
cdrom 33728 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 2944 0 (unused)
mousedev 5492 1
hid 22148 0 (unused)
input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 26348 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 19976 0 (unused)
usbcore 78784 1 [hid usb-uhci ehci-hcd]
ext3 70784 2
jbd 51892 2 [ext3]

You'll notice 4 soundcard related modules there: emu10k1, ac97_codec, sound, and soundcore. There's also "cdrom" listed further down.

I don't think I've got "alsa" or "oss" installed on my system. I tried running "lsmod | grep alsa," then the same for "oss", and got another command prompt. I ran "find alsa" and got "no such file or directory"

Any recommendations here? Will I need to install alsa or oss, or will one of the other modules be enough?

Thanks for your help, everyone!