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No Red Hat 8.0 Sound

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by choppit

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Having installed Redhat 8.0 for the first time everything works fine except the sound, which is non existent. The embedded (C-Media)PCI audio chipset is detected correctly. If I run the KDE sound utility the card is also detected correctly. If I runsndconfig, the device is detected but on selecting test, only a single click is generated (presumably from the line amp)Motherboard is MSI KT4 (MS6590) at latest BIOS revision. Sound works OK under Windows. Any ideas?

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by magellanix

See if your card is detected upon boot. As root try this command:

dmesg | less

This will show you the messages at boot, see if you can see anything about your card. Also try this command:

lsmod

This will show you if you are card is detected it will show the loaded drivers for specific hardware, can you see the driver for your sound card?

If you did see your card and such, run KDE again, on command line see if a sound manager is running (this is required)

ps aux | grep artsddo you see a process called artsd ? other then the command you just ran. If you don't, type:

artsd

This will start the sound manager and try XMMS or KDE's integrated sound player to listen a music. With XMMS it won't play MP3 files in Redhat 8for some legal reasons, you will need to get it xmms.org or rpmfind.net or freshrpms.net AND in XMMS you need to tell it to use ARTSD driver in the Options for XMMS.

If all didn't work out, run sndconfig again, this time tune different settings or try another compatible sound card like, e.g. Sound Blaster and try tweaking options for DMA channel, IRQ in sndconfig sound detection program.

Hope it all worked out.
Cheers :-D

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