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Old 03-27-2004, 11:02 AM   #1
W9RAN
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Can't find Sound Card - RH 9.0


First time Linux installer of Red Hat 9.0. Hardware is Dell Optiplex PII 450Mhz and everything is working except Sound. The Soundcard Detector says "No Soundcards Detected" and I see a modprobe message on shutdown that indicates the same thing. The Dell has a Crystal CS-4236 sound chipset on the motherboard and the CMOS setting is enabled. I've never run Windows on this PC I have not proven the hardware works myself, but I was told it did by the previous owner. I'd really appreciate any suggestions as to how to get RH to recognize the soundcard. I have OSS drivers now and could try ALSA but I think this is a lower level problem. Thanks!
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Old 03-27-2004, 11:54 AM   #2
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Your haven't got the right driver installed. They are in the alsa-drivers package. Alsa today is the standard of sound systems, so don't hesitate installing it. There are plenty of documentation on installing alsa around. Google after alsa and Crystal CS-4236 to find out what driver you should use. Post again if you need more help. Good luck.

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Old 03-27-2004, 12:09 PM   #3
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I am having this exact same problem with the exact same machine, running Mandrake 10!

How convienant :-)
 
Old 03-27-2004, 12:58 PM   #4
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I tried the information here:

http://www.alsa-project.org/~valenty...i-HOWTO-5.html

That didn't get it to work though. You might try what they say, but since I have the same system as you just take it from me, it won't work :P

HOWEVER, I did just get the sound to work! :-D

In terminal type;

sndconfig

It will open a dialog box saying no PnP or PCI (or whatever) is found. Tell it ok, Choose the Crystal CS4232 (It might say CS4236, but it is the only Crystal available)

Keep the default settings EXCEPT choose the 2nd choice in the first box instead of whatever it normally is.

It will probe it and you will hear a faint "Hello" (I think thats what was said... could barely here it), so turn your volume all the way up. If you hear it, GOOD! It might come up and say that /etc/BLAH already exists, overwrite? Tell it yes.

Restart your computer and bada-bing your sound works :-)

(The steps above worked for me, I don't see any reason why it won't work for you :-) )

Last edited by vi0lat0r; 03-27-2004 at 01:28 PM.
 
Old 03-28-2004, 11:43 PM   #5
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Smile CS-4236 Sound problem fixed

Thanks for the comments and suggestions regarding my sound card problem. It was a good learning experience to read up on alsa and how to install it, but to be honest, that's still beyond my comfort level with Linux. However I ran across references to sndconfig and was able to add it as it's not part of the RH 9.0 installation, and sndconfig found my (ISA) soundcard and configured it properly.

While it may be frustrating at times when I don't know the proper syntax or how to do something in Linux, it feels darn good not to be relying on Redmond to do all the thinking for me!

Bob
 
Old 05-03-2004, 12:44 PM   #6
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solution for cs4236 redhat 9

if you are using redhat 9 just type in a bash shell

/sbin/modprobe cs4232

we have a Dell optiplex GXa 300mhz PII and it has a cs4236 sound card which it identified under microsoft windows.

I was given this information and was told that the info came from here in linuxquestions.org

My problem is that I want to activate the wavetable (FM synthesis) feature. I want to be able to play midi files. but need to figure out how to do it. to use the following program:

I downloaded noteEdit from
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/files/RPMS/

the homepage of noteedit is http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.d.../noteedit.html

noteedit is a musical notation editor that lets you listen to printed musical notation.
am a bit of a newbie to music notation, as well.

I had the exact same problem with redhat 9, it detected no sound card. but typing that in to a shell makes sound work, I can play audio cds and also tried kaffeine media player with sound card, it works.

am a bit of a newbie, but am learning :-)

note: this uses the dsound driver that comes with redhat 9. I am assumingn that if you want the alsa driver you need to install it.

Last edited by jariep; 05-03-2004 at 01:22 PM.
 
  


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