Here are my problems: I cant get sound or microphone to work, and I cant play a DVD on my Redhat Linux 9 computer.

The sound Problem: I ran a soundcard detection test, and got the following results:
Then I ran the sound test, and I did hear that guitar sound come out of the speakers, so It seemed like everything was working fine. Then I started to play a CD, and the the CD player program showed up and started to play my CD. The problem was no sound was comming out of my speakers. I looked at the volume control and all the sound settings were turned up. The sound for games and other media dosn't work either.

The MIC Problem:I cant seem to get the MIC to work. Its pluged in the write spot, and its turned up in the volume control.

The DVD Problem: When I insert a DVD in my DVDrom, nothing happens.

What could my problems be?

Thanks in advance.

For your DVD problem, you put DVD into your DVDrom then you play it using mplayer or xine or ogle or videoclient. Of course you have to set /dev/dvd point to right location.

For your sound problem I would recommend alsa driver solution. Just install alsa-driver, alsa-utils, alsa-lib, alsa-tool. Search for their rpms in you want an easy instalation in Redhat CD or internet. If you cann't find, you have to compile sources. It is a little bit tougher.

After instalation, just do:
#alsaconf

Then you can enjoy the sound.

Getting sound to work is so annoyingggggg in linux sometimes.

I have the same problem with the microphone although my speakers seem to work. I do get sound to come over the speakers when using Alsa and speaking into the microphone. But nothing seems to go out with skype or get registered when I try to record with K Rec. So, it seems like the microphone is going to the sound board but not to the motherboard.

#alsaconf gives:
bash: alsaconf: command not found

I've seen elsewhere some suggestions to give information about my system.
Vendor: Via Technologies
Model: VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller
Module: via82cxxx_audio

#cat /proc/pci gives:
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 0).
Master Capable. Latency=8.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd7ffffff].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge (rev 0).
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12.
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem (rev 2).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=252.Max Lat=14.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc021000 [0xdc0210ff].
I/O at 0xc000 [0xc007].
I/O at 0xc400 [0xc4ff].
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 17).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0xc800 [0xc8ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc020000 [0xdc0203ff].
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Network controller: Asustek Computer, Inc. ISDNLink P-IN100-ST-D (rev 2).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=16. Max Lat=16.
I/O at 0xcc00 [0xcc07].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc022000 [0xdc0220ff].
Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 128).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd01f].
Bus 0, device 16, function 1:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#2) (rev 128).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd400 [0xd41f].
Bus 0, device 16, function 2:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#3) (rev 128).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f].
Bus 0, device 16, function 3:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 130).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc023000 [0xdc0230ff].
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge (rev 0).
Bus 0, device 17, function 1:
IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 6).
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc0f].
Bus 0, device 17, function 5:
Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 80).
IRQ 10.
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation RIVA TNT2 Model 64 (rev 21).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xda000000 [0xdaffffff].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xd9ffffff].

#cat /etc/modules.conf gives:
alias eth0 tulip
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 usb-uhci
alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio
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 || :

#cat /proc/modules gives:
ppp_deflate 4408 0 (autoclean)
zlib_deflate 21176 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
ppp_async 9312 1 (autoclean)
ppp_generic 24156 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate ppp_async]
appletalk 25924 1 (autoclean)
ipx 22020 1 (autoclean)
ide-cd 35196 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 33472 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
via82cxxx_audio 24088 1 (autoclean)
uart401 8260 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio]
ac97_codec 13544 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio]
sound 73108 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
soundcore 6276 4 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio sound]
binfmt_misc 7272 1
parport_pc 18756 1 (autoclean)
lp 8868 0 (autoclean)
parport 36480 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 12948 0 (autoclean) (unused)
tulip 43648 0 (unused)
hisax 542020 0
isdn 136288 0 [hisax]
slhc 6644 0 [ppp_generic isdn]
ipt_REJECT 3896 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2380 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14648 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
keybdev 2880 0 (unused)
mousedev 5428 1
hid 21700 0 (unused)
input 5792 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 25868 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 19592 0 (unused)
usbcore 77696 1 [hid usb-uhci ehci-hcd]
ext3 69984 4
jbd 51220 4 [ext3]

#ls -L -l /dev/dsp* (when second variable is a lowercase "L") gives:
crw------- 1 ljl root 14, 3 Aug 11 20:26 /dev/dsp
crw------- 1 ljl root 14, 3 Aug 11 20:26 /dev/dsp0
crw------- 1 ljl root 14, 19 Aug 11 20:26 /dev/dsp1
crw------- 1 ljl root 14, 35 Aug 11 20:26 /dev/dsp2
crw------- 1 ljl root 14, 51 Aug 11 20:26 /dev/dsp3
crw------- 1 ljl root 55, 0 Jan 30 2003 /dev/dsp56k

Any ideas?

try this for mike

chmod 666 /dev/dsp*
chmod 666 /dev/mixer*

amd this gor DVD

mkdir /mnt/dvdrom
mount -t iso9660 /dev/"your device" /mnt/dvdrom