Hello,

I'm sure this thread has been done before, but I looked and couldn't find anything. (Sorry if I'm a nuisance) I'm trying to get sound working with Redhat 9.0 2.4.20-8. I downloaded the stuff at opensource.creative and tried to get it to work, but I'm a new linux user so I can do about as much as a bucket of paint.

As requested, here's the lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0648 (rev
02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI
bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0963 (rev 04)
00:02.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller
(rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller
(rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller
(rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7002 USB 2.0
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 91)
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)
00:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 03)00:0b.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)
00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4600] (rev a3)

Everything else is going well. Linux seems to be pretty versatile (and configurable) I just need to get down the basics.

In advance, thanks for the help.

Jarrad

an odd thing:

in redhat 9.0 there's a sound card detection utility under system settings.
when I click on 'play test sound' I hear a guitar strumming pretty clear. does this mean that linux supports my sound card, and that I just don't have it configured correctly?

bump

Yes, that means your sound card already has a driver operating, most likely without anything else to do for hardware setup. Check your volume settings, it may always start with the volumes on 0. mp3s will play through the PCM channel, and also be effected by the Main channel.

menu -> sound & video -> volume control

gnome-volume-control (for gnome)
kmix (for kde)

I have Red hat 9 and a Sound Blaster Platinum Audigy I found it necessary to use emu10k1 located here http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1/