FC8 i386

02:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Unknown device 2f07
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at d1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel


/etc/modprobe.conf
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0

The module snd-hda-intel is loading

I can't find anything about sound in /messages

Error message:

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (Connection refused)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

Is this the correct driver ?

What do I do?

It probably is not the right driver, sound in many ways is the probably one of the easiest things to set up so once you have the right driver you should not have any trouble with output, looking at the kernel reveals there is a via ac 97 driver. You should try this. Sound drivers can be built into the kernel or built outside as a kernel module which can be loaded automatically at boot by hotplug or manually loaded. You should check first of all check whether you have this module. which you probably wont because hotplug is clever enough to load the right drivers for your hardware when you start Linux so you will need to get the driver packages for your distro