I'm facing a problem where no sound is coming out under Linux. My sound card is an onboard one, Realtek ALC655 AC'97 Audio. My system is a dual booting system with Windows XP and my Linux distribution is Red Hat 8.0 Kernel 2.4.18. What can I do?

I believe it should be something wrong with the Kernel module because of the module error message but I can't find full kernel source.

Any piece of useful information are utmost appreciated.

Thanks,
divo

Well, I think I've manage to find the correct driver and I follow the steps stated in the Readme.txt and I manage to finish ./configure, make, make install and snddevices. But I get message displayed as follow when I make install:


cat WARNING

WARNING!!! The mixer channels for the ALSA driver are muted by default!!!
**************************************************************************
You would use some ALSA or OSS mixer to set the appropriate volume.


What can I do to deal with this problem? I type alsamixer but the command said bash. Help me out here, please!!!

divo

I manage to get sound d. It's just a few steps from here. Simply go to the utils folder inside the driver directory, double-click on the alsasound / alsaconfig file, select run in the terminal. There'll be a pop up terminal, saying that it has detected a sound card, asking whether you want to edit the modules.conf. Select yes then done. Turn on your sound and wahla....SOUND!

I have exact same problem. Installing the Linux Realtek Audio driver v2.5 went through OK but is still no sound. The 'alsasound' tool in the driver/utils directory has four option start/stop/restart/status and when I ran it, it only says driver is already loaded. There is no such thing as 'alsaconfig'.

The device works fine on Win2000 (my system is dual boot also).
Thanks.

Since the driver varies from version to version, perhaps you may try to open up other executable folders and see. As long as there's been modifications done to your module.conf, then you'll be able to get sound.
I'll try to search for answer for you, but no promises. Good luck!

Thanks you. I've just upgraded to Fedora Core (1), the new RedHat Home edition (which I think based on 2.4.20.x ) and it just works flawlessly. I really like Fedora Core, it is quite better than RH 8.0 and looks nice too.

I installed a fedora core2 and everithing worked all right bu after i run yum update i lost my sound
lspci - i see my sound card
lsmod - i see my sound card modules
but the sound dont work