I have just switched from Mandrake 9.0 to RedHat 8.0 for several reasons. But the problem is I have an ASUS A7V333 with the C-Media onboard sound which worked great in Mandrake but won't work in RedHat. I contacted RedHat and they said:
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You stated that Mandrake supports this card but they're using
ALSA. I've checked ALSA's website and the chipset was present there. You can
try getting the ALSA drivers here:

http://www.alsa-project.org/

You can also try configuring your soundcard using the drivers provided by 8.0
and check if you can successfully configure the hardware:

sndconfig
redhat-config-soundcard
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But ALSA says the card is not fully supported. When I run sndconfig as root it says "command not found".

I'm lost

So did you try out the instructions from ALSA at all then?

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...&module=cmipci

That's the link for your card if you haven't. I'd think that'd be your best bet on something so new.

Cool

I have the same motherboard with same chipset and RH8.0 same problem i think.I have download the latest xmms and instal it .Now I can enjoy mp3 whille tryng to configure the rest of my sistem.Cause my to newbe in Linux world .
If you ever manage to have souround in linux(with C-media) plzz tell me how.

as root:

/sbin/modprobe cmpci

Sndconfig is probably in /sbin and not in your default path... more of RedHat being a little dumb. Also, after you modprobe the driver, open up the multimedia mixer and make certain nothing is muted.

Cheers,

Finegan

Modprobe worked great. Thanks for the help.

Now I am having problems with XMMS. It doesn't want to load files to play. It played the one that was in memory from when I was using Mandrake... then won't load any more. I'm working on it though.

thanks again

i dont know if you are using mp3 files or not, but in RH8 XMMS mp3 playback has been disabled. you can get an mp3 playback plugin from the XMMS website www.xmms.org

SOLUTION:

upgrade to the latest version of the kernel using up2date

Hey all, just found this site, been a great help already....

I just decided to swap my PCI Gamesurround Fortissimo 2 Digital, back to my mobo's (A7V333) onboard sound, as the ALSA driver allows the use of the cards S/PDIF in and out...

I successfully managed to install the ALSA drivers for the Fortissimo...I removed the card and re-enabled the o/b sound. The hardware was configured during bootup, where I found a problem with applications (gaim) not starting, and the PCM volume doing nothing when moved.

So I then proceeded to install the ALSA drivers for the o/b sound, following the steps from http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...&module=cmipci

1. ran $modinfo soundcore

filename: /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o
description: "Core sound module"
author: "Alan Cox"
license: "GPL"

2. unzipped and installed the driver package with
./configure --with-cards=cmipci --with-sequencer=yes;make;make install

3. ran $chmod a+rw /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/sequencer /dev/midi

4. unzipped and installed the lib package with
./configure;make;make install

5. unzipped and installed the utils package with
./configure;make;make install

6. added the following to /etc/modules.conf

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-cmipci
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
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

6. ran $modprobe snd-cmipci;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss

All the above steps run flawlessly, no errors of any kind. According to the install instructions, all mixer channels will now be muted, but they were not. Also, kmix also showed the name of the card before the ALSA's were installed, "CMedia PCI"

I installed the ALSA output plugin for XMMS, as the arts driver is appauling with lots of sounds for some reason. This worked totally fine on my other card, but XMMS crashes when I try to play a file now, also, the OSS driver no longer works, XMMS just crashes.

To top all this off, gaim will no longer start up, the process starts, but nothing ever appears, and I have to kill it with ksysguard.

Also, $modinfo soundcore...still gives me the same information it did before I attempted to install the ALSA drivers. Can someone please give me a hand with this, and tell me where I have gone wrong

I am only a newbie to the linux world, about two weeks since I installed RH8.0, although I did try Mandrake 8.2 (yuck) and RH7.3 in the past, at the time my gfx card didnt like linux so I gave up til I got a new one.

Thankyou all!!!!!

UPDATE:

If I kill the arts daemon, XMMS will play using the ALSA plugin, and GAIM will now start...but the arts daemon will not restart, am greeted with the following message...

Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device or resource busy)

The arts daemon will refuse to restart even after closing XMMS.

If I restart the X server, and log in again, the arts daemon will be back up, but I will no longer be able to use XMMS with ALSA, or run gain, until I kill the arts daemon again...

I have no idea as to the problem...perhaps a conflict with my old card driver?

Thanx