sound

[Master of Reality]

where do i set up my sound configuration stuff? I have an onboard soundcard and i need to find out how/where to put/install the drivers for it and get it to run.

all my book about my comp says is that it uses the AC97 Codec does that mean that is the sound card type??? Or would my sound card be using the same chipset as my video card?

[ April 23, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

[badkarma]

run lspci (you need to be root) and post the output please

[Master of Reality]

lspci isnt a command.
i typed lspci and nothing happened (command not found)
i even searched for the command using "find / lspci" i couldnt find it.

[badkarma]

what distro are you using?

[ab2ms]

try sndconfig.... if you dont have it get the RPM and try it. It's a great utility to set up the sound. Linux will see it as a card.

[Master of Reality]

i'm using red hat 7.2

[voidmain]

If you are using RedHat, you should have lspci. Try typing "/sbin/lspci".  You might want to add "/sbin" and "/usr/sbin" to your path so you can run these commands without typing the full path and most of them you can run as a normal user (ifconfig, route, lspci, etc, but you won't be able to actually change anything without being root).

"lspci" is part of the "pciutils-2.0-2.rpm" that should have been installed on most any type of install of RedHat.

[ April 23, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[Master of Reality]

i ran /sbin/lspci and found that my sound uses the SiS 7012 chipset. Linux currently does nor have any drivers for this chipset, but i site told me that the Commercial open sound driver woul work with it, os i downloaded and intalled it.
Dont know if it works yet.

[Master of Reality]

no it still doesnt work  

[Master of Reality]

ok.. i did:
lspci -v | egrep -i '(audio|sound)'
Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 7012 (rev a0)
. and according to http://linuxpr.com/releases/4344.html
the OSS driver should support SiS7012 chipsets. I installed the OSS driver (it came with a nice GUI installer) and my sound card still doesnt work. Any ideas???

setup>soundcfg tells me that i have a sis7012 and its not supported.

[ April 28, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

[kinky]

2 systems i have have VIA chipsets with AC97 sound.  Redhat 7.2 and SuSE 7.3 and 8.0 all detected it automatically and it says its working right.... but i really dont know for sure since im deaf


your problem is prolly that its SiS

[Interscope]

Same problem here. I'm running Mandrake 8.2.
I have an Avance Logic ALS4000. It detected everything, but I didn hear any output.

[Master of Reality]

ok... i did setup>sound configuration.
it found my card as an SiS 7012 unknown Device and said that it wasnt supported. I searched on google and found a site that said the OSS sound Driver would work with SiS 7012, so i installed it using its handy GUI installer and the sound still doesnt work, and the sound configuration says the same message as above. Does this mean that i cant get sound for my Linux computer until i get another sound card???

[asdf]

Try doing cat [FILE] > /dev/dsp and see what you get. Pick any old file for [FILE]. If you hear garble, then its working. If it doesn't do anything, then make sure your kernel has support for your sound card. It probably does though, since you're running Red Hat..