Rh9 No Sound On Toshiba Laptop With Ac'97 Sound
 

I'm relatively new to Linux. I just installed RH9 on my Toshiba A15-S1292 laptop, and during RH9 it auto-selected my sound driver, and even played the test sound. I later noticed that I'm not getting any sound in GNOME. I cannot play CDs or hear application sounds. I opened the Red Hat sound configuration utility, which only offers to test the sound card, but that failed and no sound played. If anyone knows how to help me I sure could use some help. Thanks in advance!!! DS

I saw a post about a similar topic, and an expert wanted the guy to run a command to identify the sound driver. Here is the output of the command /sbin/lspci -v

[root@Satellite danny]# /sbin/lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Chipset Host Bridge (rev 01)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at <unassigned> (32-bit, prefetchable)
Capabilities: [40] #09 [e105]

00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3584 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3585 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0002
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at eff8 [size=8]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Chipset Integrated Graphics
Device (rev 01)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0002
Flags: fast devsel
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128M]
Memory at 18000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
I/O ports at cfe0 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB EHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at 18080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] #0a [2080]

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 83) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: cff00000-cfffffff

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24cc (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24ca (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at bfa0 [size=16]
Memory at 18080400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0241
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
I/O ports at 1400 [size=64]
Memory at 18080800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at 18080a00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1800 [size=256]
I/O ports at 1480 [size=128]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BD PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 83)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at cffff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at cf40 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

01:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 33)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 18081000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=01, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
Memory window 0: 18400000-187ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 18800000-18bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

hi, can you type in "aumix" in a terminal and check if "vol" and "pcm" are not at a 0-level?

KDE aRTs soundserver taking control of audio
 

I booted into KDE, instead of GNOME. I was getting sound in KDE. I looked, and there is a control in the KDE Control Center for aRts soundserver, under Sound & Multimedia | Sound System | aRTs tab. After disabling this and booting back into GNOME, I had sound in GNOME. aRTs will occasionally take back control, re-enabling itself. I'm not sure why this is. Does anyone know??