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buzza24:
Hey,

I have no sound in RH 8.

Speakers are pluged in, and the sound works in Windows.

I have recently in new drivers for my vid card, if that has a connection of some type let me know.

Help Needed.
Thanx
Buzza

smokey:
Warning: possible informative post  

RH8 has to be really stupid when it comes to sound and randomly deletes the files /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp0. In a console type

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp0
push ctrl-z after a couple of seconds
if static came out of your speakers it works

if not try
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
push ctrl-z after a couple of seconds
if static came out of your speakers it works

If that doesn't work just say and I will try to help

/end possible informative information section  :D

Calum:
i am in the same boat. red hat fails to properly use my C-Media soundcard. some sounds play, some other sounds wait till some other apps exit, then play, some sounds don't play at all. the C-Media card is supported by alsa, which red hat does not include.

Any help (of a non totally confusing nature) on how to install alsa properly in red hat please?
the alsa site has really confusing (to me) instructions.

thanks....

PS yes, i did cat /dev/urandom to the /dev/dsp device and it worked. not only that but my konsole console beep works too.

i just tried using xmms, the esound plugin works, the arts plugin works, the OSS plugin works, and having installed a few rpms of alsa using apt-get for red hat i tried the alsa plugin too, it does not work.
the alsa plugin says 'error opening alsa device: no such file or directory'. fine, you might say, use esound, oss or arts, but no. some apps do not deliver their sounds okay, kde does not play a sound when it starts up for example, some games and swf files are silent and a particularly annoying thing is that i cannot play audio CDs using any player at all. and i know the hardware is set up fine because mandrake (which uses alsa by default) plays cds fine (or it did when it was installed on this machine).

SAJChurchey:
I have an onboard C-Media card w/ my ASUS motherboard.  I had to disable Plun-n-Play in BIOS and then used sndconfig in RH to configure the sound card.  

Give that a try and let me know what happens.

Master of Reality:

quote:Originally posted by Buzza2:
Hey,

I have no sound in RH 8.

Speakers are pluged in, and the sound works in Windows.

I have recently in new drivers for my vid card, if that has a connection of some type let me know.

Help Needed.
Thanx
Buzza
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are you trying to play MP3s??? Redhat took out all MP3 support in 8.0
...One of the many reasons i use slackware

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