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I'm running Redhat 8.0 and I can't get sound. I running the 2.4.18-24.8.0 linux kernel. I have two sound cards that aren't running properly. I have an onboard soundcard on my asus p4pe (i810_audio). I also have Creative's Audigy2. I installed the audigy2 driver from Creative's open source website (EMU10K1 version .20a). I also confirmed that the soundcore and sound modules were running. They recognized both the i810_audio as well as the audigy cards. I also confirmed that the audigy and i810_audio modules existed using the lsmod command. Sound has never worked on my system --- even before I installed audigy. That makes me think that I have a system issue. Can anyone please help me???????????
Oh ya, i confirmed that /etc/modules.conf has alias for both audigy and i810_audio. I used the dmesg command to find what was recognized on boot up. Both cards were listed. I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks, J
Ya, I removed the audigy card and it did not work. I don't know how to disable the card built into the motherboard. I did disable its loadable module though and that didn't work either. J
I had the same issue with a RH 8.0 machine. Tried everything: updated drivers, swapped sound cards, et. al.
I accidentally plugged the speakers into the wrong outlet on the sound card one night and there it was --sound. This is not the same outlet is used when the machine was running RH 7.2 or way long ago when it had WIN 98.
I wish I could tell you the exact output ( spkr or whatever) but I can't. I use cheap soundblaster cards and buy them in bulk. I don't have a manual.
My bet is with subservant. I thought that my sound was dead until I had the bright thought to plug in some analog headphones. I imagine that Audigy cards are like Creative's Live! cards in that they output digital and analog through the same port, which Linux doesn't support (or so I hear). I guess you're relegated to analog sound until someone figures it out.
i also installed the emu-tools and tried to the tool configuring script "emu-script" It allowed me to specify either analog or digital. I tried both options but I did receive an error. "SOUND_MIXER_PRIVATE3: You're probably using an older incompatible driver: Invalid argument". THe error confused me because I've only installed the latest version of the driver. I'm still a little confused about the difference between analog and digital. I just thought of it as analog -tape, digital -cd. I don't know what analog headphones are unless almost all headphones are analog. If all headphones are, I tried it and it didn't work. I appreciate the help.
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