Sorry to bother you guys, I'm a noob who needs help.

I installed RedHat 8.0 to find that I have NO sound. I though RedHat 8 would be perfect because my GeForce 4 didn't work in 7.2. I'm not the troubleshooting genious with linux or else I wouldn't be here.

I have the via8233a onboard sound card.

Hope someone can help me out, I want to try CS via wineX

Also, I just tried the alsa-projects software and it's not working either.

here's my /etc/modules.conf > (which I got from another thread)

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via8233
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

anyway I'm not sure what OSS is, is it something I need to install? The only thing that has changed so far is instead of getting the message
"/dev/dsp could not be initialized, using null instead" or whatnot, I get
"device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such device)"

I did soemthign the other day that got me to "i/o conflict" or something. I thought that is probably the closes I've gotten. Being the noob, I have no idea.