Hello~

Story~

I had been using he integrated sound on my motherboard for a while, and it had been working great, but when I installed Unreal Tournament 2003, I couldn't get the sound to work. I had an extra soundcard sitting around, so I thought I'd try that out.

Problem~

There is absolutely NO sound output, and I can't seem to get anything working.

Information~

The card is a Cirrus Crystal cs4280. I did some googling, and found that it is supposed to be used with the cs46xx.o driver. I got that module, and put it in with the other sound modules. Next, I aliased it in /etc/modules.conf like this:

alias sound-slot-1cs46xx

I also tried to let RedHat set it up for me, and it did pretty much the same thing, but put some weird lines into modules.conf, and I have no idea what they mean.

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 || :

and...

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


Maybe these are causing the problem??

Sorry for the long post, but I really don't understand what is going wrong here. I would appreciate anyone that takes the time to help.

Thanks~

Andrew

ok~

i've got everything fixed. all i had to do was turn off the integrated audio, and delete all of its setttings/modules, and everything started working witht the new card i had just installed

as it turn out, those other lines were just parts of the config file from alsa.

thanks,
andrew

Andrew,

I was having a similar problem....
I was just using the onboard sound on my ASUS A7V333 motherboard (with the Via KT333 chipset), using the fairly nice 6-channel CM8738 chipset for sound.

Well it did sound pretty nice, but, I couldn't even get the sound to run on all four speakers on my system in Linux, and when I couldn't get it to record sound for RogerWilco (a gaming colaboration app in Windows), I decided to install my good old, trusty SB Live card that I had moved to another system.

Ha-Ha, what an adventure. In Windows 98, the act of uninstalling the old sound drivers and installing the SB drivers made windows unable to boot in normal mode. Since I'm triple booting win98,XP and Linux, this wasn't a great concern.

But I was preturbed at not being able to have sound working in Linux. In, addition to listening to music quite a bit, I like playing Quake in Linux, and I recently got a hold of UT. So I definitely wanted to get it resolved (Did I mention I'm a gamer? ).
Well, I had been pulling my hair out looking at the modules and trying to figure out why I wasn't getting sound from an apparently already loaded module. Well, I really should have thought of editing /etc/modules.conf before, but, well, your post set me back on track, my friend. So thanks for posting the solution you found for your problem...

It seems a lot of people don't do that when they get a solution, and if somebody else has the same problem, they won't benefit from your experience.

P.S. In addition, now I have all four speakers working in Linux, and the sound quality is at least as good as in Windows.

Eeeexcelent : ). Sound in linux is always a bit of a trial, but it is so rewarding once you get it done.

~Andrew