mdg Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 I just installed RedHat 8 alongside Mdk to try it out, but I can't get the sound to work. The sound module is not starting at bootup. The sound chip is detected correctly (AC '97 onboard on VIA KT-333 chipset). I think RH is loading the wrong module. Sound works fine in Mdk 9.0 but there it's using a different module Anyone know how to tweak sound settings in RH? I can't find anything like MCC where you can select a different card/driver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 This seems to be a common problem: http://www.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.c...i?buglist=54905 Try the solutions near the bottom of the linked page. Goodluck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted January 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 Thanks ral, lots of ideas there. I'll filter through them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted January 10, 2003 Report Share Posted January 10, 2003 mdg, The easiest thing to do is run the command cat /etc/modules.conf on both systems. Look for a line similar to: alias sound-slot-0 .... The 3rd word is the driver's name. My guess about the drivers u are using are: redhat-8.0 -> via82cxxx_audio (OSS/Free driver) mandrake-9.0 -> snd-via8233 (ALSA 0.9rc3 driver) Redhat-8.0 does not come with the ALSA ( http://www.alsa-project.org ) drivers (which mandrake includes). However, u can install the latest ALSA drivers for redhat-8.0 from http://psyche.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=484 . Once u have installed the correct RPM on ur redhat-8.0 system, replace all sound related entries in ur /etc/modules.conf by these two entries: alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xxabove snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss This will configure ur system to load the ALSA drivers at the next boot. To load the new drivers without rebooting, do these: 1. Quit all sound apps (disable all sound servers like ESD and ARTS). 2. Become root by typing su followed by root passwd. 3. Run depmod -a 4. Run modprobe -v via82cxxx_audio modprobe -v snd-via82xx modprobe -v snd-pcm-oss For the next few steps, u don't need to be root. 5. Check if the file /dev/dsp exists. 6. Run a mixer program (kmix, gmix, xmix, aumix) and make sure that all settings have non-zero values. 7. Run ur favorite sound app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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