nevermind. it turned out to be the known issue of the volume defaulting to mute. Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > system-config-soundcard detects my soundcard info correctly, but then > "play > test sound" produces no sound. all the alsa rpms are installed. lsmod > turns up oss stuff though... > > [root@semaphore arts-1.2.92]# lsmod > Module Size Used by > [...snip...] > snd_mixer_oss 13824 2 snd_pcm_oss > snd_emu10k1 71172 1 > snd_rawmidi 17184 1 snd_emu10k1 > snd_pcm 68872 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1 > snd_timer 17156 1 snd_pcm > snd_seq_device 6152 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi > snd_ac97_codec 50436 1 snd_emu10k1 > snd_page_alloc 7940 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm > snd_util_mem 3200 1 snd_emu10k1 > snd_hwdep 6276 1 snd_emu10k1 > snd 38372 10 > snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep > soundcore 6112 2 snd > > no oss stuff is even installed... > > [root@semaphore arts-1.2.92]# rpm -qa | grep -i oss > [root@semaphore arts-1.2.92]# > > thanks for the help! > >
