Ok, its not working. The sound only works in the OSS installer test sounds. Still, at startup it says that there is no sound device at /dev/dsp so it cant open it. Can anyone tell me how to select the sound device + drivers in redhat?

Here's a screenshot. See how it had N/A for "device" ? How do I change that so it points to my sound device? I have OSS selected as my Sound I/O method, but get a device not found error all the time.

My 2 cents is to use ALSA.

Cool

i have the same problem, with the intel on-board 82801DB or whatever. what do i need to do? i'm somewhat of a newbie, only a few months.

Can you post up what you get when you (as root) type:
lspci -vv (LSPCI lowercase)

Cool

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0132
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 3
Region 0: I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
Region 1: I/O ports at e080 [size=64]
Region 2: Memory at ffaff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Region 3: Memory at ffaff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-


this is the part about my sound. i can post it all if you like.

It is my opinion you would have best luck with this page then:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...odule=intel8x0

Follow the instructions on that page, they are laid out fairly well.

Cool

I dont know, but try to type aumix-X11 on a console, then see the volume in the pop up menu you will have.

May be it will work....

hhegab

i have the same problem
i have installed red hat 8.0.a and it has detect my sound blaster live platinum but when i open the mixer it give me an erroe. Say that con't open/dev/mixer. Have you solved the problem?

yes. long story short, don't use rh8. for so many reasons.

as far as sound goes, you need a newer kernel than 2.4.18-4 which is (i think) the kernel used by rh8.

either upgrade the kernel (up2date -k, i think, i've only been doing this for a little while) or take the easy way out and get a better distro. i recommend gentoo if youre good enough at it. i'm not.

i have had the same problem. I have a sound blaster live platinum and with red hat 8.0 was ok, but with 8.0.a. i have a problem . Linux detect my audio card but no sound. And i can not open the mixer program because it give me an error. Have you solved the problem?

I've have the same problems with RHL 8.0 Sound. I have updated the "source code kernal to 2.4.18-26.8.0, dowmloaded the driver from RealTek for my embedded sound card ALC650 'AC97

I ran the
./configure
make install
./snddevices

this all worked ok. Then I added the lines to my modules.conf that the text that came with my driver stated to do. Still no sound!!!!

This is a dualboot RHL 8.0 - W2K Pro PC. The sound works fine with W2K.

The onboard sound card is "RealTek ALC650 'AC97

This is the text that I was suppose to add to my modules.conf

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

alias usb-controller usb-uhci

#alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio //remark this line, this is default audio driver



#====== added those lines =============

alias char-major-116 snd

options snd major=116 cards_limit=1



#--- Intel 8x0 and SiS 7012 ----------

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

options snd-intel8x0 index=0 id="ICH"

#--- Via8233 and Via686A/B -------------------

#alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx

#options snd-via82xx index=0 id="VIA"

#------------------------------------------------------



alias char-major-14 soundcore

alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss

alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss

alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss

alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss

alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

#=================================

post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :

pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :



I wish someone can help me with this

HELLO facemaster ,'

i am also facing the same problem . Can you please tell me but is OSS ? how to install it ? further details please


ashu

http://freshmeat.net/redir/oss/7516/....opensound.com

Cool

i installed alsa drivers. when i run aplay .... i get the message playing file but do not get any sound. I do not know what is happening?

ashu