Hey, I've been on RH9 for 2 days. I've also been using Linux for only 2 days. My sound worked perfectly after install. I ran up2date and downloaded the updates and also installed the nVidia Display Drivers and now I have no sound.

My sound card is an SiS 730. I need help urgently please. Linux is the only OS on my pc and I need to get working. Any idea of any files I should check?

BTW: I already tried recompiling the kernel. But to no avail. Still no sound. Please help me. Thanks

A few things to check -
go into your bios during boot and see if there is an option to turn plug'n'play off
open a terminal, as root, and type sndconfig - see if you can configure the card that way
open a terminal and, as root, type lsmod, to see which sound modules are running.

please don't use words like "Urgent", we do not do that here, thanks.

Ok carly, I am going through the ALSA Drivers install. Following these steps here : http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=trident

After this process completes if I still do not have sound I will try what you recommended. Thank you.

Ok My BIOS does have an option called Plug and Play Aware OS it is on. I can turn it off.

When I type SNDCONFIG I got an invalid command message.
' lsmod ' gave me the following.

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
snd-seq-oss 34144 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 5672 0 [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 46864 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-seq-device 6204 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq]
snd-pcm-oss 44836 0 (unused)
snd-pcm 84480 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-page-alloc 8388 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-timer 19716 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-mixer-oss 16184 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd 43716 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mixer-oss]
trident 32820 0
soundcore 6468 4 [snd trident]
pcigame 2952 0 [trident]
gameport 3364 0 [pcigame]
ac97_codec 14536 0 [trident]
agpgart 47968 3 (autoclean)
nvidia 1670784 10 (autoclean)
parport_pc 18788 1 (autoclean)
lp 8804 0 (autoclean)
parport 36800 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13108 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sis900 16492 1
ipt_REJECT 3992 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14648 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
sg 35852 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17720 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12016 0
scsi_mod 106584 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35424 0
cdrom 33216 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 2912 0 (unused)
mousedev 5428 1
hid 21892 0 (unused)
input 5792 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-ohci 21320 0 (unused)
usbcore 78272 1 [hid usb-ohci]
ext3 69984 2
jbd 51508 2 [ext3]

Also, ALSA did not work. Does anyone know how to uninstall all the stuff I did when I followed the ALSA install steps.

If you used up2date and updated the kernel, how about selecting the previous kernel and see if it may work? Then, we can eliminate the kernel factor. Make sense?!

When I tried to load up the old kernel I got some error about nVidia drivers. So far I can only load up this kernel.

*edit* I am going to do a reinstall of RH9 and do not update anything via up2date until I have installed nVidia drivers and the sound is working fine. Post my results back here in a bit.

Alright, Re Installed Linux. Everything working perfect now. Have nVidia drivers installed and the sound is working. Not sure if I should update the kernel. Will I see a big preformance difference if I update? And should I download and install the other RHN updates?