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No Sound in RedHat Linux 8.0

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by larryny1 1 view

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I have an MSI MS-6712 mainboard with embedded RealTek ALC650 'AC97 sound card. Linux installed a VIA 'AC97 driver for this which did not work.

I downloaded the correct driver from RealTek unzipped it which created a directory with directions how to install

I followed the commands

./configure

then

make install

then

./snddevices

This worked ok then added the text to the modules.conf that the driver doc stated, but still no sound

Any help would make me real happy

Thanks,
Larry

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by r.e.c.

If you didn't reboot your system, the entries you made to modules.conf may not be in effect yet.

Type lsmod to see if the modules are loaded.
If not, you can use modprobe xxxxx
where xxxx is the sound driver module you need.

You could reboot the system.

I'm surprised the driver setup went ./configure then make install without a make in between.

Are you sure you didn't miss a step?

Hope this helps,

Bob

BTW - I have a similar problem with a Yamaha card that causes SDL to fail. I get sound but no with my games that use SDL. I'm trying to install alsa which is NOT going well.

by larryny1

This is the install text that came with the driver I downloaded. I downloaded it from the RealTek web site, but it looks like a ALSA driver to me. I have followed all the steps so I'm not really sure what to do.

Because I'm new to Linux I'n not sure if I added the correct text to the modules.conf

Installation:
This Source Code is from www.alsa-project.org.
For driver installation, please follow below steps.

Step 1. You must have full configured source for the Linux kernel.

Step 2. Uncompress the source code
a. tar xfvj alcsound.tar.bz2
or b. unbzip2 alcsound.tar.bz2
tar -xvf alcsound.tar

Step 3. Turn on sound support (soundcore module)

Step 4. Complied source code
a. ./Configure
b. make installc. ./snddevices

Step 5. Edit your /etc/modules.conf or conf.modules depending on the Distribution
(Please refer to the attached modules.conf)

Step 6. reboot your machine

Note: 1. The most detail information, can refer the INSTALL file in the alcsound.tar.bz2.
2. Kernel Version must be 2.2.14 or later.
3. All mixer channels are muted by default. You must use a native
or OSS mixer program to unmute appropriate channels.
4. If can not compile the source code, try to rename the /usr/src/linux-2.x -> /usr/src/linux.
5. The driver added to support the SPDIF functoin.

by larryny1

I guess there aren't too many here who know RedHat Linux. If anybody can help please respond

Thanks,
Larry

by larryny1

Well I got the sound to work by runing a command call "alsasound" So all the other steps I did correct.
It would have been nice if the setup directions stated to run this command. What it did was add lines to my modules.conf

#=================================
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 0.9.0 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd major=116 cards_limit=1 device_mode=0666
options snd-via82xx index=0
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

How was I suppose to add this infomation to modules.conf without direction from the alsa setup?

Its nice that all the files and utils where there, but the install directions stink! If I wasn't a PC Tech I would never have figured this out.

Larry

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