Please help. Having trouble with my sound (i can't hear anything). I'm using Redhat 7.3 with KDE. And I'm trying to use a sound blaster pro card. Check this out:



[root@dhcppc0 root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
parport_pc 18724 1 (autoclean)
lp 8864 0 (autoclean)
parport 34208 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
nls_iso8859-1 3488 1 (autoclean)
sr_mod 16920 2 (autoclean)
emu10k1 63968 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 11936 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
sound 71916 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
soundcore 6692 7 (autoclean) [emu10k1 sound]
binfmt_misc 7556 1
autofs 12132 0 (autoclean) (unused)
tulip 43104 1
ipchains 43528 10
ide-scsi 9664 1
scsi_mod 108608 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 30272 0
cdrom 32224 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
usb-uhci 24452 0 (unused)
usbcore 73216 1 [usb-uhci]
ext3 67136 2
jbd 49400 2 [ext3]

How have you tried to set it up? Try using 'lspci -vv' to get some more details. You might also look at your bios boot-time information to find out what IRQ/DMA or other parameters you need to get the sound to work correctly; if you don't know this information already that is. I'm using a Sound Blaster Pro, but it's an ISA card with jumpers and it works great.

opps, I have a SB Live not a sb pro! sndconfig did not work. I can't get to the bios because Gateway hides them. Here is what lspci said:



00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step
ping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort
- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64
Region 0: I/O ports at eff0 [size=8]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot
-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Open kmix and turn the volume up.

To elaborate, as Lynch is probably right, these are the modules of your sound card:

emu10k1 63968 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 11936 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
sound 71916 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
soundcore 6692 7 (autoclean) [emu10k1 sound]

Typically codec based mixers are muted by default... if you have a mixer panel under kmixer or whatever mixer you use, then the drivers are loaded, post back if that doesn't work.

Cheers,

Finegan

kmix show a mixer panel. All volumes are up and nothing is muted. But there is still no sound. What should I try next?

thanks so far for your help guys

Try finding a nice raw sound file (such as the ubiquitous ones of Linus Torvalds saying 'hello, my name is Linus and I pronounce Linux as Linux') and cating it to your device (i.e. cat xxx.snd > /dev/dsp) Anything?

still nothing.....

Not bieng rude here, but you do have your speakers connected to the correct sockets on the back, and turned on? Please, don't take this as being rude... If I had a pound for every time that I've plugged everything in and found that sound doesn't work... because I've forgotton to plug the power-lead to my speakers in... I'd be a rich man, I can tell ya!

Everything seems plugged in correctly. But before you mentioned it I forgot to check.

Not even sndconfig fixed the problem

Problem solved!!!!! Belive it or not, one of the cables are bad!!!

Thanks so much for your time guys

lynch

Don't you hate it when its something little like that!!!

Hey Thymox, your method reminds me of a friend of mine's less subtle method:

cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp

and make certain the speakers aren't up too loud.

Cheers,

Finegan