Sound card not working...
 

I just bought a Dell Dimension 9100 and after I have installed Fedora Core 4 it does not detect my sound card. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do or what driver would work.

The sound card is a Sound Blaster Audigy..

Welcome to LQ. Are you sure that the system is not detecting the sound card, or could it just be that the volume is muted, or that there's some sort of physical problem (ie, the card is installed but the speaker cable isn't plugged in). Can you post the results of running these two commands
The first command will list the PCI devices that are recognized, and the second will list the kernel modules that are installed. -- J.W.

Here is the lsmod output:

lsmod
Module Size Used by
e100 49800 0
nls_utf8 6081 1
parport_pc 31621 0
lp 16585 0
parport 39049 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 22725 2
rfcomm 46041 0
l2cap 33857 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 56645 4 rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 139781 1
vfat 17345 1
fat 54621 1 vfat
dm_mod 59749 0
video 19909 0
button 10577 0
battery 13381 0
ac 8773 0
md5 8001 1
ipv6 265857 12
usblp 16961 0
uhci_hcd 35409 0
ehci_hcd 38093 0
hw_random 9557 0
i2c_i801 12621 0
i2c_core 25409 1 i2c_i801
snd_hda_intel 20129 0
snd_hda_codec 58433 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy 7621 0
snd_seq_oss 35777 0
snd_seq_midi_event 11585 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 54097 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 12621 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 54257 0
snd_mixer_oss 21953 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 91973 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 28357 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 58149 9 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd _timer
soundcore 13345 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 13765 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
ext3 133193 2
jbd 61785 1 ext3
ahci 15301 4
libata 49220 1 ahci
sd_mod 22977 5
scsi_mod 136457 3 ahci,libata,sd_mod

Here is the lspic output:

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Memory Controller Hub
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Graphics Port
00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 01)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 Class 0106: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=AHCI (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B62 [Radeon X600 (PCIE)]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X600(RV380)
05:05.0 Modem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1080 (rev 04)
05:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) LAN Controller (rev 01)

I also got this message after rebooting...

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (Invalid argument)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

What are the permissions on /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer? They should be at least 666 -- J.W.

I changed the permissions for both to 666.

Still no sound..

Also I still get this message at boot up..
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (Invalid argument)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.