I am a newbie to linux and finding difficulty in enabling sound on my system. I have installed FC5 on my system so far good.
But I am unable to get sound on it. I tried the auto detection of sound card but was unable to get through it. It showed me that 'auto sound detection failed'.

It will be of great help if some body can figure out what's the problem
and how I can get through it.

You *really* should post the make and model of your mainboard and/or soundcard. The output of a "lspci -v" might help as well.
If you have a brand new mainboard with onboard sound, rather use the most recent Fedora Core (8).

Hi nelufarup,

FC5 is very old, why cann't you try FC8? Many new features related to sound are evolved since FC5. And also support for FC5 was already over. FC8 is having many new features and is rocking the desktop world recently.
But if you are using FC5 for a particular reason then as woodpecker mention please reply with more details.

First of all thank you woodypecker for your reply.
I will definitely send you the output of "lspci -v".

I was trying to upgrade to Fedora 8 but I am unable to download it.
When I go to the download page I find two options
1. Fedora Desktop Live Media
2. Fedora KDE Live Media

I don't know which one to download. Basically I am confused.
So I want to trouble shoot the problem in FC5 only.

Well, you may be perfectly right in saying that I should upgrade to FC8,
but then help by suggesting how to get it.

DVD is the big pack. Kde live cd is base using kde desktop. Desktop live cd is base using Gnome desktop. Pick what you want.

Okay. Thanks for info.
So you mean to say that I can select either KDE or GNOME as per my
choice.
Another thing to ask, whether live CD means iso images?

Hi woodypecker,

This is the output of lspci -v

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a33 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d600
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at <ignored> (64-bit, non-prefetchable)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a3f (prog-if 00 [Normal
decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 99
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=68
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: fde00000-fdefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d8000000-dfffffff
Capabilities: [b0] #0d [0000]

00:11.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 437A Serial ATA Controller (rev
80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d600
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
I/O ports at ff00 [size=8]
I/O ports at fe00 [size=4]
I/O ports at fd00 [size=8]
I/O ports at fc00 [size=4]
I/O ports at fb00 [size=16]
Memory at fe02f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable
-

00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 4379 Serial ATA Controller (rev
80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d600
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
I/O ports at fa00 [size=8]
I/O ports at f900 [size=4]
I/O ports at f800 [size=8]
I/O ports at f700 [size=4]
I/O ports at f600 [size=16]
Memory at fe02e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 20080000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable
-

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev
80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d600
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
Memory at fe02d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable
-

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev
80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d600
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
Memory at fe02c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable
-

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev
80) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d600
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
Memory at fe02b000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable
-

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 82)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d600
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 0b00 [size=16]
Memory at fe02a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Contro
ller ATI (rev 80) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d600
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at f400 [size=16]
Capabilities: [70] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable
-

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 437b (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d600
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at fe024000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable
-

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d600
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80) (prog
-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: fdd00000-fddfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fdc00000-fdcfffff

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200 ] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d600
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
Memory at fdef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fde00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable -

02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139 C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d600
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
I/O ports at de00 [size=256]
Memory at fddff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 437b (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d600
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at fe024000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable

appears to be such a beast. You should either install kernel-devel package and the latest alsa (1.0.16) drivers as a tar.gz, or better upgrade your FC5 including the kernel.
Oh well, I have such a ALC88x thing here as well, and it works fine with Mandriva and 2.6.24 kernel - but I can only get mono ....

Hello woodypecker,

Well ...., I will follow your first suggestion of installing kernel-devel package and the latest alsa drivers.
The reason to stick to FC5 is that I need g77 compiler and from my experience I know that in the latest version of fedora instead of g77 there is f77 compiler. Actually I have written some codes which work well with g77 compiler and not with f77. So inorder to save my efforts of making changes in code, I need to use FC5.

It will be of great help if you can tell me which kernel-devel package I would need and from where I can get it.

Thanks for the help.