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Old 02-19-2003, 02:53 PM   #1
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VIA AC'97 sound on red hat 8.0


I have a via ac'97 sound card on my pc and i cant get it to work on red hat 8.0. Can someone help me out of this mess?!

p.s. red hat detects it but it play no sound


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Old 02-19-2003, 03:10 PM   #2
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Have you looked into alsa? if you google for it you'll get a few hits
 
Old 02-19-2003, 03:13 PM   #3
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no i have tryed alsa
 
Old 02-19-2003, 03:15 PM   #4
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redhat-sndconfig?
have you tried using that
also are your channels unmuted?
 
Old 02-19-2003, 03:19 PM   #5
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sndconfig finds it but kde says "no such divice will use sound on null port" or something like that
 
Old 02-19-2003, 03:28 PM   #6
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hello is any one there?
 
Old 02-19-2003, 03:41 PM   #7
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sorry wondered off into no where
ok I've had the no device found problem it happened when i recompiled my kernel the only way that I know to fix it when it happens to me is to reinstall alsa
 
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hay hay hay slow down firstly i am only 12 years old and 2 i dont know what alsa is!
 
Old 02-19-2003, 03:50 PM   #9
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ok alsa is a set of kernel modules that handle sound cards
KDE is telling you that the devices for sound do not exist and it simples sends the sound calls into /dev/null which means into nothing
You will need to reinstall alsa drivers.
this is the alsa hompage
http://www.alsa-project.org/
 
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i have been on the site but it is for SuSE
 
Old 02-19-2003, 04:07 PM   #11
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have you checked your redhat CDs? its most likely on there.
 
Old 02-19-2003, 04:08 PM   #12
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how wouldn't it load them automaticly?
 
Old 02-19-2003, 04:11 PM   #13
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not always search the approriate cd directories

ls alsa* should work
 
Old 02-19-2003, 04:14 PM   #14
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i am trying alsa now
 
Old 02-19-2003, 04:17 PM   #15
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eeeeer how do u run it?
 
  


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