How Do I Configure My Sound Card?
 

I recently installed RedHat, and my sound doesnt work. When I go to System Settings -> Sound Card Detection, it shows me the sound card. I have an onbord sound card. I don't think what it shows it right, cauz no sound works. Is there a way to select the type of sound card that I have?

Possibly you should check under services to make sure that the sound daemon is running?

Under services I see stuff like "anacron, cups, daytime, etc.. etc..". How do I know which one is the sound demon? It dosent say anything that sounds like sound.

Alright. Forget about what I asked. Now I know why red hat sucks.
All the programs runs like in a p166. This is p4 with 512MB ram.
Random lockups in programs. Mozilla crashes often. Sometimes when I click on K button, it takes about 20 seconds for the menu to pop up. This happens randomly and goes back to normal after a while.
There are about 50 screensavers and more than 2/3 of them dosen't work.
I know this sounds like windows. But this is me with red hat 9.

Most importantly, there is a program that I want to use and it require sound. When I launch the program it says that I dont have sound and closes. I dont have time to go through manuels to do such a simple task. I need the program today, that's why I asked it here.

I'm going back to Mandrake. This time mandrake 10, untill I finish my project. After that i'll have some free time, so I can install Slack.

Nukem, may be its time for u to switch distributions! ;-)

ya.. that's exactly what I'm trying to do.

Try slackware (i fell in love with on first use)

yaa. But how do I download slack? there are no ISOs.

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...kware-9.1-iso/

the first 2 disk contain the install/binary
the 3rd and 4th are source cds.

also check http://slackware.com/getslack/ for mirrors

I fell in love with Slackware the first time I used it and this was just last week. I use to be a Red Hat user and it basically put me off Linux, but before that I used Mandy and I thought it was pretty good.

true enough, because since the day that I installed redhat, i'm using windblowz. Don't feel like installing mdk 9.2 again. Just waiting for some free time to give slack a try.

Ya slackware somewhat attracts all types of linux users (newbies, power users,...)
It must be the simplicity that does the trick ;)

I am also having trouble getting my sound to work. Im using Debian Woody. When I boot up I get an error that states my sound daemon will not start properly.

Its onboard sound on a Sony Vaio Laptop.

eugeen:/home/unclejessie77# lspci -v

00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80f6
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 1000
I/O ports at 1c54
I/O ports at 1c50
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2


Im not sure if the drivers are installed for this because Im not sure how to check.

why dont u install alsa using apt?? I'm not familiar with apt-get else i could have helped u.
On the other hand, if u are planning to install from source, then tell me. I'll try to help u out!