Hello. I am using redhat 9.0 kernel 2.4.20 & KDE. I have an integrated SiS 7012 PCI Audio Accelerator. Since I don't use sound much on this pc I can't really say when this happened. But a few months ago my sound just stopped working. The major change that happened in that time frame is that I updgraded to the latest stable kernel from redhat (via up2date). Again, as I rareley have my speakers on when using this pc (via a belkin KVM) I can not say if that event is what triggered my trouble.(I did use LILO to go back to two earlier kernels to see if the latest was somehow buggy but I still have no sound) I did some searching on Google, but now I'm more confused than ever. Should I be using alsa, aRts or what?? I really have no idea how to even start troubleshooting this problem so any replies will be greatly appreciated. Yes I saw that there is a thread almost just like this one, but I have no idea how to compile kernels & the link provided does not work anymore. I saw using synaptic (the graphical front for apt-get) that I have some kind of module support already compiled in (I 'll have to check again when I get home tonight) & ALSA support via rpm's.

Ok. Just saw the FAQ about what info I should give also


0:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 735 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller (rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 90)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 31)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15)
[lovswr@matrix1 lovswr]$




TIA

a quick google:

http://sdb.suselinux.hu/en/sdb/html/...ecs_k7s5a.html

is it bad or good?

Unfortunately rh9 does not ship with alsa support with
kde (& I think gnome too) you will have to manually build
new rpms with support in for this.
Have you tried re-running the sound card config program?
Run lsmod too see if it is loading the module needed for
your soundcard.
Check /etc/modules.conf and see if there are entries in
there for your soundcard.
Re-running the soundcard config program may redo these
entries if they are missing. (you will need to reboot for these
to take effect)

Ok, but the sound was working before.

Yes, I tried that several times. It tries to do the sound test. If I pick no, it says no soundcard detected. If I say yes, it says soundcard configured, but I still have no sound. Here is is my modules.conf (I just noticed that the Tekram scsi controller is still showing up, even thouth the card is in the desk behind me...hmmm)



alias eth0 tulip
alias eth1 tulip
alias scsi_hostadapter sym53c8xx
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias eth4 dmfe
alias eth2 sis900
alias char-major-195 nvidia
alias sound-slot-0 i810_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 || :