Hi , i have a little problem with sound on my Red Hat machine .
I hear sounds when i resize a window and that stuff, but when i try to play a normal audio cd i hear nothing . I have an Via Technologies VT82c686 ac97 audio controller and see the module loaded when i type lsmod .
I even hear the test soud when i check the soundcard configuration.
Gnome CD even starts playing the cd ... (I have a dual boot with windows and everthing works fine there so the hardware is ok )

Does anybody have an idea ... ?

p.s. I remember the first time I started Red Hat 8 after installation I had a messages window about ARTS ? and that arts was going to use /dev/null as an output ..
well at least i know that much that /dev/ null is no the right place to put anything in if you ever want it back

Is the audio cable plugged into the cd player and motherboard?

as root, do:

modprobe via82cxxx_audio
chmod 777 /dev/mixer
chmod 777 /dev/dsp

Try grip, it should work.
I have red that it was because of a cable who should be connected from the cd to the sound card but wich is not.
If somebody know better please write !

It sounds (no pun intended) that your chip is working i.e. producing sound.

so, is your application trying to see the correct device?

I can't say for deadrat, I use mandrake and KDE, but with both "grip" and the kde cd player "kscd" I have the problem that as I have both a cdrw and dvd drive, mandrake automatically call the devices "cdrom and cdrom 2" so I have to make sure that the applications are listening to the devices using more accurate (or maybe more correct) names.

If I look at the initial setup, it tells me that the app points to /dev/cdrom2 (which is my cdrw) so I have to configure it to point at /dev/scd0 - which is something to do with the "scsi emulation" used by a lot of burners. I can't use the dvd to listen to audio cd's, as it doesn't have an audio connection cable from the drive to the sound card (which I bought to use instead of the ac97 onboard device, which I couldn't get configured).

I am given to understand that under windows, the sound from the drive is somehow taken via the IDE cable, with linux, you require a connecting cable from the drive to the sound device (well I think that's correct anyway).

So just check what the app is looking at, is it using the correct name/nonclamenture?
because not only is my cdrw actually called /dev/scd0 but the dvd drive is called /dev/hdb.

regards

John

As I am here you write modprobe via 82cxxx_audio
How do I find out on my machine ?

[TEXT]modprobe via82cxxx_audio
chmod 777 /dev/mixer
chmod 777 /dev/dsp[/TEXT]

Well do I Feel like an idiot !!!

I have two players in my machine one is a dvd player and the other is an rewriter .. and i tought that the cable to my soundcard was plugged into the dvd player .. and thats were i put my cd's in .... appears i had put the cable in the rewriter ... Thanx for the help quietguy !!!!