hello,

I have installed RH 9.0 recently. The sound card is not detected. But while booting for the first time it had detected. How to configure the sound card now?

thanks in advance

#sndconfig

OR :

Go to www.alsa-project.org and use a proper decent sound system !!

Hi,

I tried sndconfig... it said that a ISAPNP sound card was found and the details are: Model: OPL3-SA3 Snd System:Unknown. Then it displayed the card settings to match the dip swtich settings in the sound card. I/O port, IRQ, DMA 1 and DMA2. I tried various combinations... the sound card test is saying that "unable to play audio"-An error occured opening /dev/audio and then again it goes to the setting which is in loop. how to solve it? please help.

anyone there to help me?

To get your sound card working, log in as root and give the following command:

modprobe opl3sa2

This command places the module for yamaha opl3 sa2 in memory.

Now give the command:

sndconfig

If you dont remember the DMA and IRQ settings, reboot into Windows 98/2000/XP....if you have a dual boot and check out the settings from there. You can locate the settings like this:

Start->Settings->Control Panel->System->Sound, Audio and Game Controllers

Then right click the Yamaha OPL3 SA3 soundboard and check "Properties".

These settings are also displayed at boot time of Windows.

If you dont know the settings, try and use my settings

Use DMA as 1, 0
IRQ as 5
and leave the rest as it is....

And yes, keep the volume of ur speakers high and use a console audio mixer program to set values of bass, treble and other settings to 100%....Check and unmute all the options otherwise u may not hear the test sound.

I hope that will solve your issue.

Note however that this setting will disappear after you reboot your machine. To keep the settings permanent, you have to get the sound module loaded at the time of system startup.

To do that, create a shell script....name it anything...lets say

load_sound.sh

put this line in it:

modprobe opl3sa2

and save it in the /usr/local/bin directory.

Now open the file

/etc/rc.d/rc.local

This is how it looks like:

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local

# Your custom script is executed next
/usr/local/bin/load_sound.sh

Now, every time your system boots, the sound module will be loaded automatically.

Hello,

Thanks a lot for ur help! The audio is working fine and i tried writing the shell script as u mentioned. when i restarted to check, it's not detecting the device again While booting i saw "Loading sound module ad1848" what should i do?

well....sorry, i forgot to tell you one more thing...

you need to give executable rights to the script.

do that by issuing the following command:

chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/xxx.sh or

change to the directory /usr/local/bin and give the command

chmod a+x xxx.sh ( where xxx is the name of ur shell script)

i hope that will help u get rid of this problem forever!

and you need to be logged in as root to assign permissions.

Dont worry about anything else. It will work fine once u make it executable.

Instead of the shell script you could have just added the line "opl3sa2" to your /etc/modules file. Simpler.

It's working!! thanks....

I have the same issue...
lsmod =ac97, size:5088, Used by:0, Not taintedunused)
# sndconfig detects Intel 82801EB AC'97 Audio

I press OK and it displays...82801EB AC'97 Audio is not supported.

No sound and no volume control.

Can anybody help please. I am new to Linux

Could you post the relevant part of lspci -v for me. I just want to double-check your chipset.

Hi,

In redhat 7.3, the sndconfig is working fine. But the mp3 or .wav files can't be played through xmms... I have 3 packages installed.

xmms-gnome-1.2.7-1
xmms-devel-1.2.7-1
xmms-1.2.7-1

am i missing something?