Help, I'm a newbee.

I have a Dell 8400, installed an additionally drive and created a dual boot with XP and Fedora 4. Everything went fine until it asked to test the sound.
I have no sound.... I have an Audigy SB sound card from Creative.

I have installed alsa but don't know what to do. I'm not sure how to run alsaconf or if it exists....

Here is the output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 925X/XE Memory Controller Hub (rev
04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 925X/XE PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 Class 0106: Intel Corporation 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA
Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus
Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon
X300 (PCIE)]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5b70
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit
Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
04:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
04:02.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev
04)
04:02.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)


Here is the output of lsmod:
Module Size Used by
iptable_nat 21917 0
ip_conntrack 41497 1 iptable_nat
iptable_filter 2881 0
ip_tables 19521 2 iptable_nat,iptable_filter
nls_utf8 2113 1
snd_seq_midi 8929 0
parport_pc 28933 1
lp 13001 0
parport 40585 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 29253 2
rfcomm 42333 0
l2cap 30661 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 56133 4 rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 167813 1
dm_mod 58101 0
video 15941 0
button 6609 0
battery 9413 0
ac 4805 0
md5 4033 1
ipv6 268097 8
ohci1394 41353 0
ieee1394 304441 1 ohci1394
uhci_hcd 35152 0
ehci_hcd 41037 0
i2c_i801 8781 0
i2c_core 21569 1 i2c_i801
emu10k1_gp 3649 0
gameport 18633 2 emu10k1_gp
snd_emu10k1_synth 8513 0
snd_emux_synth 43073 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 7105 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 6849 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1 133317 4 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi 30305 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 75961 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_dummy 3653 0
snd_seq_oss 37057 0
snd_seq_midi_event 9153 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 62289 9
snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi _event
snd_seq_device 8781 8
snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_ seq
snd_pcm_oss 51185 0
snd_mixer_oss 17857 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 100169 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 33605 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9669 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4673 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 9057 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd 57157 18
snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_de vice,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore 10913 1 snd
tg3 108229 0
ext3 132553 2
jbd 86233 1 ext3
ata_piix 9413 3
libata 47045 1 ata_piix
sd_mod 20545 4
scsi_mod 148105 2 libata,sd_mod



Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.........

Perhaps the most obvious question is whether you have checked that your sound is working properly under XP. If it is then you probably do not have a hardware problem, and vice-versa. I'll assume for the present purposes that you have done that check.

Your lspci and lsmod outputs look fairly encouraging. You have got:
04:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
as one of the lines from lspci. Also:
snd_emu10k1 133317 4 snd_emu10k1_synth
is there in the lsmod.
emu10k1 is listed on the alsa soundcard matrix as the right driver for the audigy. However there is a risk that yours is some strange audigy variant with an unusual chip. You may be able to get more information about it via
lspci -v
which puts lspci into verbose mode.

The main point of alsaconf is to match up a sound device with the right drivers for your distribution. It generates some output that can be put in your modules configuration file to ensure that the drivers are loaded as soon as they are required. However it looks as though that side of things has already been attended to - because the output you have sent seems to show the right drivers for your audigy. I think you should try to make quite sure by identifying the chip in your audigy, and you may be able to do that with lspci -v.

Now let's suppose that you have the right kernel module for the chip on your sound card. Even that by itself is not quite sufficient - unfortunately your chip might have been given a signal along the lines of "keep quiet, we don't want any noise coming from you" when the driver was loaded. So really you should try gaining control of the output. Probably the best device control comes from the alsa programs themselves. You say that you have got alsa installed. If so then things like alsamixer should be available You can run alsamixer from a simple terminal. The graphical side is rather crude, but it gives very direct control. You can find out how to use it via
man alsamixer
You can get a sound output device listing via
aplay -l
which should tell you what devices appear to be available to alsa.
Again instructions for using that can be found via
man aplay

When you run alsamixer there are command line switches to identify the particular output device you want to control. If there is more than one such sound device it may be necessary to identify it to alsamixer.

It is quite probable that your output device is currently muted. I think that you can use the m key to either mute or unmute different channels, which are selected in alsamixer using the arrow keys. It is very easy to mess up a configuration when nothing is actually wrong at all - its just that the volume is turned down or the output channel is muted.

I really appreciate your reply!
It was the dreaded "mute".

Thanks for everything!