Hello, I am running the Fedora Core 3 Distribution installed on an old Pentium 2 system. Everything is working fine except for the soundcard. It is an integrated (onboard) soundcard. When I run the soundcard detection utility, it says that no soundcards were detected. Any help would be appreciated.

Try loading the sound card driver(if u know any details about ur onboard sound card). Tell us the results.

login as root using a terminal window then at prompt
# lspci (then press enter key)
copy the output and post it here.
do the same with
lsmod

When you post the result maybe we can suggest you the right module to load.

walker

Thanks for the fast replies!

My kernel and entire system is totally up to date using up2date. So I guess that means I am running the latest version of the kernel. But when I first installed FC3 the kernel was not updated and the sound card was still not detected. As far as my chipset goes, I'm not sure. I know it is an intel mobo, with a Pentium 2 processor. The system is a Compaq Presario model 5170. As I said, the soundcard is onboard. One other thing that I notice, is that when linux boots, it says something like 'network audio OK' I'm not sure exactly what is says but it is something along those lines, which should mean that it has detected something if I am correct. I will post my lspci here:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 02 )
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 02)
00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
00:14.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:14.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:14.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133 ( rev dc)

here is my lsmod:

my kernel and entire system is totally up to date using up2date. So I guess that means I am running the latest version of the kernel. But when I first installed FC3 the kernel was not updated and the sound card was still not detected. As far as my chipset goes, I'm not sure. I know it is an intel mobo, with a Pentium 2 processor. The system is a Compaq Presario model 5170. As I said, the soundcard is onboard. One other thing that I notice, is that when linux boots, it says something like 'network audio OK' I'm not sure exactly what is says but it is something along those lines, which should mean that it has detected something if I am correct. I will post my lspci here:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 02 )
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 02)
00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
00:14.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:14.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:14.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133 ( rev dc)

I will post my lsmod here:

Module Size Used by
parport_pc 26501 1
lp 12077 0
parport 36617 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 22981 0
sunrpc 154149 1
ipt_REJECT 6593 1
ipt_state 1857 1
ip_conntrack 40309 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 3521 1
ip_tables 16321 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
dm_mod 55509 0
md5 4033 1
ipv6 230273 8
uhci_hcd 31321 0
i2c_piix4 8273 0
i2c_core 20801 1 i2c_piix4
tulip 48353 0
floppy 57329 0
ext3 116041 1
jbd 68185 1 ext3

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

The reply is fast but I can't give you good news

The output of lspci shows there's no onboard audio chip!

In lspci you should see a line like this

00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)

but in your there's not.

This mean only two things.

Your pc hasn't onboard audio chip or maybe it's faulty (broken,fuse or whatever)

It's an hardware problem.

Sorry for the news I hope I've done a mistake but I'm sure at 99%.

Why dont u try to load all sound modules and then find the details about ur soundcard? hence load the correct driver. This is not a good way, it might reduce ur pc's performance. Once i did it. My slackware didnt detect my onboard sound card when i ran alsaconf. But i loaded every sound module i had. And then ran alsaconf again. It detected my sound card. I dont really recommend this. Do it at ur own risk. Good luck.

I wonder if your onboard sound is enabled in the bios?

Hei Kilahchris!
You could be in right!
I've forgotten than some bios give the opportunity to disable onboard audio!!

Maybe there's no serious failure but it's only related to bios!

I did a search and my chipset is an Aureal A3D TM Interactive 360 Positional sound chipset. The sound is indeed enabled at the bios level, and the hardware should be good, yet fc3 does not detect. Perhaps this is some help? I'm wondering why it says 'audio OK' during the boot? I am new to linux, any help would be great. Thanks.

I'd try opening a terminal, su, enter passwd, alsaconf, probe legacy yes, see if it detects it.

<EDIT> After thats conplete, alsamixer and make sure it's not muted.

Hey, when I type alsaconf it says 'command not found'

Any suggestions?

I'm still without sound. Hardware is good, because it worked with windows. I know very little about the FC3 OS, and don't know what to do next. Also, it is enabled at the BIOS level... sound package is installed in this machine, but no mention of AUDIO in the hardware browser.

Anything???

Well I am working on the same problem right now in another distro. But with alsaconf, make sure that you su first:

#su
#(root password)
#alsaconf


that should do it for ya.

-onelung

alsaconf does not work, command not found, even as root.

Then i think u dont have alsa utilities installed.