What cheap sound card works in Red Hat 8

nemo2002 · 12-22-2002, 12:31 PM

I am getting sick trying to get my onboard AC'97 sound working, apparently I am not the only one. I don't want to pay any money for a sound driver to "open sound" extortionists and cannot stand PC without a sound. Don't tell me anything about alsa-project.org, that site is gone, deceases, cease to exist, kaputt.

What cheap hardware sound card works in Red Hat 8? Anybody?

opo · 12-22-2002, 05:47 PM

Hallo
I had almost the same probleme.My problem was exactly that I couldn't play mp3 or any other sound.So I have search for the latest rpm pacage of XMMS I instaled it and now everithing it's greate.I'm beginer in Linux,but if this can help.....

MasterC · 12-22-2002, 07:52 PM

ALSA is still alive and kicking... But to address your question:
SB Live

The Live and Audigy series work great with the emu10k1 driver.

SB Live's are running a mere 30 bux right now, so I am don't know how "cheap" you are wanting to go, but compared to the 110 I paid 2 years ago for it, that's nothing!

Cool

Chameleon · 12-22-2002, 10:43 PM

The Sound Blaser 128 PCI (with the Ensoniq 1370 chip) should work fine.

My current sound card (something Generic) is using the Ensoniq 1371 with no trouble at all.

TomJones4JC · 12-23-2002, 12:27 AM

I have an Audigy.... it puts out no sound with Linux... where do i get the driver for that?? thanks!

MasterC · 12-23-2002, 01:00 AM

http://opensource.creative.com/

Cool

TomJones4JC · 12-23-2002, 09:37 AM

I am fairly new to linux.... would anyone be so kind as to go through how to install the emu10k1 driver? You can e-mail me the instructions at skcorsusej@hotmail.com I would greatly appreciate it. I have no clue what to do with the files! :-P Thanks!

TomJones4JC · 12-24-2002, 11:29 AM

Anyone? PLEASE!!!

Chameleon · 12-24-2002, 02:54 PM

Audigy Driver Installation Guide
RTFM! (Read The Free Manual!)

TomJones4JC · 12-24-2002, 03:28 PM

i'msorry, i installed it and everything... made sure the stuff was correct in my kernel... still nothing... :-/ I want to try to check the volume, but when i try to open volume control it says i don't have permission, even when i am in Root. I made the permissions right, I checked the kernel and said yes to the sound ones that had the word mixer in them. Help!!

Chameleon · 12-25-2002, 02:54 AM

If you don't have permission even as root then something is very wrong...

Unfortunately, I don't know what it might be...

Check permissions anyway of the related devices, such as /dev/mixer, /dev/dsp, etc. they should probably be readable and writable by the owner, such as shown below.

[root@Chameleon dev]# ll mixer
crw------- 1 paul root 14, 0 Aug 30 16:31 mixer
[root@Chameleon dev]# ll dsp
crw------- 1 paul root 14, 3 Aug 30 16:31 dsp

TomJones4JC · 12-25-2002, 09:41 PM

Hmmm.... ok, my modules.conf is very changed by OSS because that's what I tried first... how do i get it back how it was BEFORE OSS???

Chameleon · 12-25-2002, 11:48 PM

You should be safe removing anything sound related.
Necessary items might be re-added by Kudzu, however, I'm probably wrong.

Make a backup first and hack away.