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how do i get sound through linux?

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by ceallach_a

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i installed linux mandrake 8.2 the other day in my puter...it reconized the soundcard as being:ess technology es1988 allegro-1.it worked fine on windows,but i formatted the hard drive and have nada...i put in my headphones... no sound...ive checked the wireng for my speakers...nothing still,ive mounted the cd rom and the cd-rw nothing....i was hoping you could give this illiterat person who has never dealt with linux before ever start to finish instructions....thanks alot if you can help.

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by thechas

Here are some links to assist with Linux sound problems.

The drivers built into the "kernel" are somewhat limited.

The best place to look for compatibility issues is the Linux Sound HOWTO at linuxdoc.org.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO/

Here you'll find a list of sound cards that are supported by the Linux kernel.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO/x96.html#AEN109

ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) sound drivers can be an alternative to the Linux kernel
sound drivers. (And may be your only option if the sound chip mfg does not offer a Linux driver.)

You can download the drivers
from the ALSA Web site.
http://www.alsa-project.org/
Note: the ALSA drivers are available only as code,
so you have to compile them.

That requires that you have your systems kernel source files available.

Check to see if your sound card is on the ALSA list of supported hardware.

http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/

by bruno

Ok the other answer said something about alsa. It's ok.
You can also try the oss package. Install it and it will detect automatically your sound card.
You can also try the sndconf or sndconfig from the command line and it'll work...

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