I have a dual boot partition, and my sound card works fine for XP. But for RH 7.3 and the recently-upgraded-to 8.0, hte sound card doesnt work. Running sndconfig it seems to find it, anyway it brings up the right name for the driver - EMU10K1 - but I get no sound during the test.

Anybuddy have a good resource page for troubleshooting this, or setting it up correctly?

I don't have v8.0, but all versions of 6.x and 7.x have worked fine for me.

Try booting into runlevel 3, with no Xwindows running, and running sndconfig, then go back to runlevel 5.

-K.

I dual boot redhat 8 and XP and I use a Sound Blaster Live!. I can attest that it works great in this situation.

Your problem must be that the card is misconfigured somehow in redhat... If I go to "system settings -> Soundcard detection" I see that my soundcard is detected as:

Vendor: Creative Labs
Model: SB Live! EMU10k1
Module: EMU10k1

Clicking on the "test sound" button produces a sound of a concert guitar. It's a bit quiet so you may have to turn up your speakers to hear it.

You do have the option to do a fresh install of redhat 8 which should configure your sound card correctly (unless there is a more serious problem with your system i.e. crappy mobo.) . Maybe someone else has a less destructive suggestion, but if you have no data or settings to lose then this might be the easiest option.

Make sure the volume (in Linux) is not set to zero, some drivers start the sound muted by default, I have no idea why

Soundcard detection brings up the same info as yours, but I never hear the test sound. I made sure the volume wasnt muted, or at zero.

I would rather not reinstall 8.0 clean, but may have to. What is "crappy mobo"??? The card does work fine for the windows partition.

Can anybuddy suggest a good resource for double-checking the configuration of a sound card? Is there a .conf file somewhere that I need to check?

That would be a motherboard that doesn't do PCI to specification, or shares IRQs that should be dedicated to CPU tasks. In general the newer the motherboard the better. Each generation seems to have fixed oversights from the series before it.

Hey,
I just had the same problem as you.. I finally got it working. Firstly I opened a terminal (As root)...

modprobe emu10k1 (You might hear a click on your speakers)

cd /dev

ls -al ds*

This on my system returned

dsp
dsp0
dsp1
dsp2
dsp3
dsp4

dsp was linked to dsp0..

I then tried..

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp1

(If this works.. there will be a lot of static)

Press CTRL+C to get out of it.

then type:

ln -sf /dev/dsp1 /dev/dsp

Then open up the soundcard detection and try playing the sound. If this doesn't work then the drivers aren't installed properly I would say. If you need some help, feel free to e-mail me.. I will see if I can help you out further.

Wow, maybe I have bigger problems than I thought. I got command not found when I tried to run modprobe. So I gave it an explicit path - i.e. /sbin/modprobe - and didnt get the click.

All I had in my /dev directory was dsp, dsp1 and dsp56.

I tried the 'cat /dev/urandom..' step but didnt get any static, created the link, but sndconfig had same results as before.

Cheers for the tips though!

dude... are you logged in as "root"?

-K.

dood, indeed I am...

for some reason, /sbin (where I found modprobe) was not in root's path.

Seems this is a problem with my Gateway box. Apparently the OEM card uses the same port(?) for analog and digitial sounds, which the linux driver does not support. So I get beeps (analog) when I get mail, but no tunes (digital). ::sigh::

I went into the Bios and turned the option for Plug-N-Play OS to NO. Once I rebooted, then then Linux saw my card and ran beautifully.

im currently running redhat 8.0 and am also having the same problem. however i have found that when in root my sound works fine and also if i log into kde instead of gnome and then go to the kde control center<sound<sound server....and change a setting then hit aply i will hear all those little guitar sounds over and over and over again. then when i colse it will work fine..but when i restart same problem again and again....grrrrrr oh and im runnin and amd1.7 with a new asus board and a pci soundblaster 128 so its not old hardware......anyway i hope maybe someone has an idea....Cg

ok not sure if anyone cares anymore but i think i have cured atleast my own problem...lol well the current one atleast... i have been hackin away at this and i tried turning the arts sound server in kde control center to not start on start up and it seems to have cured the problem. just figured id post i hope it helps someone else...of to find my next challenge....Cg

lol, too bad I didn't get here sooner, I would have suggested the same thing, that's what I had to do to get it to work on my box.