Hello,

I just installed RH and I really think it's great and all, but the one thing that just won't work is the sound. I ran sndconfig and it recognized my VIA VT8233 AC97 sound card, but when it said it would play a sound sample I never heard anything.

This is what my /etc/modules.conf looks like:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 8139too
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 || :
alias usb-controller usb-uhci

ls -l /dev/dsp* gives me this:
crwxrwxrwx 1 user root 14, 3 Apr 11 16:25 /dev/dsp
crwxrwxrwx 1 user root 14, 19 Apr 11 16:25 /dev/dsp1
crwxrwxrwx 1 user root 55, 0 Apr 11 16:25 /dev/dsp56k

This is the output of /sbin/lsmod:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
via82cxxx_audio 20480 0
uart401 7936 0 [via82cxxx_audio]
sound 71916 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
soundcore 6692 4 [via82cxxx_audio sound]
sr_mod 16920 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 11936 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio]
radeon 97496 1
agpgart 39456 3
binfmt_misc 7556 1
autofs 12132 0 (autoclean) (unused)
8139too 16480 1
mii 2408 0 [8139too]
ide-scsi 9664 0
scsi_mod 108608 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 30272 0
cdrom 32224 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
mousedev 5312 1
hid 21344 0 (unused)
input 5984 0 [mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 24452 0 (unused)
usbcore 73216 1 [hid usb-uhci]
ext3 67136 1
jbd 49400 1 [ext3]

I also tried to use the pnpdump program, but it doesn't come with RH 7.3, and being new to linux I wasn't able to compile the pnpdump source code I downloaded from the isapnp home page.

Any help would be appreciated.

Harry

Check your mixer, the volume level could be set too low.

Thanks for the reply.

I checked the mixer settings, they seem O.K.
Any other ideas?

Harry

Have a look at the permissions on all the sound devices in /dev

that does not solve it. please let me know if there are any program to make & compile and its location.thank u.

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that does not solve it. please let me know if there are any program to make & compile and its location.thank u.

Have you looked at VIA's site?
Google search for your card + linux + problem?

It will either be a well documented 'known' problem or someone, somewhere here or on google will have fixed it. You need to help us before we can help you - you have the card on your machine, so you really need to take the initiative on this one.

Bert

I preface this all by saying that I'm a newbie...

That's on-board sound right? I have the same deal in my box. It's been a b*tch trying to get it working. I installed ALSA drivers, but later uninstalled them after I realized I could just enable the kernel drivers. However, some of the modules you have loaded look different from mine. If it helps, check out my lsmod output, and perhaps that may give you some insight. (I would post it here, but I'm at work.) I believe the thread is called something like "Sound card woes."

Also, I know that VIA has linux drivers on their site. Perhaps these are newer than the ones Red Hat is trying to use in your deal.

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=128

And since Red Hat is the most popular distro around, VIA provides some rather specific documentation (much to my aggravation since I use Slackware).

One more thing. If you still have your motherboard CD, you might want to poke around inside of it. My Shuttle CD actually had a folder called "Linux" with a bunch of VIA audio drivers in it.

Hope any of this helps!

--Akshun J