This is the third time i try to get some informations about fixing this problem.
Is it impossible to have sound from this board with red hat 8.0.?
I can't believe that in all the world nobody can help me!!!!!

I ahve heard that in Slackware you use
modprobe ac97_codec
modprobe via86cxxx_audio

and then it works!
run lsmod to see what modules are loaded and see if ac97 is there.
I have the same board, but it won't work for me either, but I ahve heard that those commands do!

Thank you.
Do you know somebody using Red-Hat?
Only because i need an help.
I downloaded alsa-driver and configured them and other steps but the sound doesn't work.
But i think it is very painful to do, because nobody could help me since two weeks when i mailed my request for the first time.

I have Mandrake 9.1 running on that motherboard. It automatically set up the onboard sound. Here's the relevant output of lsmod
snd-seq-oss 31104 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 5640 0 [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 42608 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss 43556 1
snd-mixer-oss 14488 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-via82xx 14092 1
snd-ac97-codec 40160 0 [snd-via82xx]
snd-pcm 77536 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx]
snd-timer 18376 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 4396 0 [snd-via82xx]
snd-rawmidi 17600 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd-page-alloc 7732 0 [snd-via82xx snd-pcm]
snd 40868 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 6276 0 [snd]


Does that help?

I have the same board.

Tunr off ACPI in LILO or Grub.

Your problem will be solved.

chuck

I don't have ACPI in my LILO. What is it and where else would I find it? because its not in the lilo.conf file.

Enter acpi=off in Extra parameters.

I'm only a couple of years into Linux, so I still cling to GUI config tools.

From the KDE Control Panel
Select <System>
Select <Boot Manager>
Type

acpi=off

in "extra parameters".

Your system should (repeat "should") work.

With Mandrake I had a problem with the LAN driver
With SUSE I had a problem with the Sound driver.
So, it seems, ACPI doesn't cooperate nicely, let alone consistently.

Let me know how this works out.
chuck

Thank you for your help. I apreciate it.
I found what it did not work! The volume in the alsamixer!!!
I had to turn it on manually.
Now i have other new problems, after all it's not easy to be a newby.
See you.