Hello to those that read this,

I have been banging my head on my desk for about a week now trying to get my sound card issue straightend out. My forehead is sore, and so is my back from sitting here all the time!! Hope somone can help me out.

Here's the issue. My sound card worked great when I first installed Redhat. But now it stopped working. The only time I get sound is at login. You know the music that plays when it starts up. Then it stops altogether. I have no clue how to restart the sound server either.

I have two cards I have been working with and both do the same thing. One is integrated, (which is turned off right now) and the other one is listed below. I believe they both use the same driver (ac97_codec)

Any clues?

PS: I have Googled and Googled and Googled with no luck. I have also checked around this forum, but I haven't seen anyone with the same problems.

Thanks in advance!!

Here's my lsmod:

[root@Donatello root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: PF
es1371 30408 6 (autoclean)
gameport 3364 0 (autoclean) [es1371]
ac97_codec 14536 0 (autoclean) [es1371]
soundcore 6468 7 (autoclean) [es1371]
nvidia 1764992 11 (autoclean)
vmnet 23848 4
vmmon 28148 0 (unused)
parport_pc 18788 1 (autoclean)
lp 8804 0 (autoclean)
parport 36800 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
iptable_filter 2412 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables 14648 1 [iptable_filter]
autofs 13108 0 (autoclean) (unused)
smbfs 43888 1 (autoclean)
orinoco 39148 0 (unused)
hermes 7652 0 [orinoco]
3c59x 29904 1
prism2_pci 72416 0 (autoclean) (unused)
p80211 22700 1 [prism2_pci]
sg 35852 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17720 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 11984 0
scsi_mod 106520 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35424 0
cdrom 33216 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ohci1394 19880 0 (unused)
ieee1394 48780 0 [ohci1394]
printer 8896 0
keybdev 2912 0 (unused)
mousedev 5428 0 (unused)
hid 21892 0 (unused)
input 5792 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
ehci-hcd 19784 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 21320 0 (unused)
usbcore 78272 1 [printer hid ehci-hcd usb-ohci]
ext3 69984 2
jbd 51508 2 [ext3]

Here's my lsof /dev/dsp:

[root@Donatello root]# lsof /dev/dsp
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
artsd 5611 root 8w CHR 14,3 65650 /dev/dsp

Here's my lscpi -v:

01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI128
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at c000 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

Fixed!!! Stupid too. I went into the control panel (K Control) under sound system then Sound I/O and enabled Full Duplex operation.

Now I have sound!!

Another problem. While using Xmms I don't hear the Gaim sounds until I stop Xmms. Then it plays ALL the sounds I missed.

Any fixes out there?

Don't know about your prob, but I have a similar problem...

sound is great for some minutes, then it stops, and only the console beeps make any noise.

don't know what to do - i have an nforce chipset, with builtin sound, rh9, gnome.