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02-19-2003, 02:53 PM
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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

Last edited by Ian_Hawdon; 02-19-2003 at 03:05 PM.
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02-19-2003, 03:10 PM
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Have you looked into alsa? if you google for it you'll get a few hits
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02-19-2003, 03:13 PM
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no i have tryed alsa
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02-19-2003, 03:15 PM
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redhat-sndconfig?
have you tried using that
also are your channels unmuted?
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02-19-2003, 03:19 PM
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sndconfig finds it but kde says "no such divice will use sound on null port" or something like that
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02-19-2003, 03:28 PM
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hello is any one there?
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02-19-2003, 03:41 PM
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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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02-19-2003, 03:45 PM
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hay hay hay slow down firstly i am only 12 years old and 2 i dont know what alsa is!
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02-19-2003, 03:50 PM
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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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02-19-2003, 03:59 PM
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i have been on the site but it is for SuSE
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02-19-2003, 04:07 PM
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have you checked your redhat CDs? its most likely on there.
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02-19-2003, 04:08 PM
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how wouldn't it load them automaticly?
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02-19-2003, 04:11 PM
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not always search the approriate cd directories
ls alsa* should work
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02-19-2003, 04:14 PM
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i am trying alsa now
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02-19-2003, 04:17 PM
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eeeeer how do u run it?
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