Red Hat 8.0 sound problem

I just installed red hat 8.0 and the sound doesn't work. Its detecting my card but have no sound. When I try to go to volume control, it gives me an eoor saying it could not open the audio device.

Does someone know whats going on?

Hi face_master,
Try loggin on as root, and seeing if the sound works, sometimes the permissions on the sound device aren't set up for normal user accounts.

Otherwise, check the settings for sound , and make sure it is pointing to the correct device.

It could be a possibility that it is installed but red hat has not discovered where it is/is pointing to the wrong device.

You will need to send more information in your next post. Regarding, what type of soundcard you have, what your sound options are. what steps you went through to install your soundcard etc.

Still doesn't work as root, but how do I get it to point at the right device? Im in KDE, Redhat

Hi,
In the control panel there is a sound section, first you have to find out weather or not your sound card is actually working I guess. I am not entirely sure how to do this with red hat.

Well I found out that the driver is not working. But when I detect the card it gives me this info:

Vendor: Intel Corp.
Model: 82801DB AC
Module: 1810_audio

..wait but in the hardware browser it has N/A for "Device: "

What does lsmod show you?

You *might* have to use ALSA to get that device working, but for now let's try to get it rolling without that.

Cool

how do I get into lsmod? I typed that in terminal but it said command not found

You must be root. It's /sbin/lsmod

Cool

It gave me this output:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
sg                     36556   0 (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod              107176   1 (autoclean) [sg]
nls_cp437               5116   1 (autoclean)
vfat                   13084   1 (autoclean)
fat                    38712   0 (autoclean) [vfat]
nls_iso8859-1           3516   1 (autoclean)
ide-cd                 33608   0 (autoclean)
cdrom                  33696   0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
soundcore               6532   0 (autoclean)
autofs                 13348   0 (autoclean) (unused)
8139too                17704   1
mii                     2156   0 [8139too]
iptable_filter          2412   0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables              14936   1 [iptable_filter]
mousedev                5524   1
keybdev                 2976   0 (unused)
hid                    22244   0 (unused)
input                   5888   0 [mousedev keybdev hid]
usb-uhci               26188   0 (unused)
ehci-hcd               17480   0 (unused)
usbcore                77024   1 [hid usb-uhci ehci-hcd]
ext3                   70368   2
jbd                    52212   2 [ext3]

Ok, I ran sndconfig and got these errors:

     ┌────────────────────────┤ modprobe error ├─────────────────────────
     │                                                                   │
     │ The following error occurred running the modprobe program:        │
     │                                                                   │
     │ /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o:         │
     │ init_module: No such device                                       │
     │ /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o:         │
     │ insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o   │
     │ failed                                                            │
     │ /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o:         │
     │ insmod sound-slot-0 failed                                        │
     │                                                                   │
     │                              ┌────┐                               │
     │                              │ Ok │                               │
     │                              └────┘                               │
     │                                                                   │
     │                                                                   │
     └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

at startup its telling me that there is no such device at /dev/dsp how do I add one?

okay, if there is no device, then maybe you haven't compiled support for it in to the kernel, or are missing the *correct module* do you know exactly what the sound card is, ie the make model and generic name. for example your sound card could be the 82801DB AC'97 Audio. I am not sure if this is correct. I'm not a big RedHat user but under debian I would prolly need to *insmod* the correct module for the sound card, or compile the kernel with support for my particular soundcard.


Now from what you have posted above, it looks as though you have already got some drivers/modules and things there with your soundcard, so I am pretty much stumped.

I recommend physically looking for information on the soundcard itsealf like the model number, and then from there do a search on google for anyone else who has had the same/similar problem. I usually try words like <name of hardware> <distro name> howto

Sorry I couldn't help you any more.
Aaron

Also turn plug and play off in your bios, then see if it detects your sound if its a built in sound card on the motherboard.

I remeber in Mandrake 9.0, I had the same problem but I was playing with the hardware options where you select what driver you would like to use for each device, and it started to work. Is there a similar thing in RedHat?

I just installed OSS now its works. Thanks for all your help