My apologies for adding my $.02 4 days late. This isn't an intentional "first liar don't have a chance" kind of deal but I have had sound problems on one machine (not this one) since RH7.2 or so -- possibly beginning with a RH6.0 update. The RH-based stuff simply cannot find my sound card (currently a SB64AWE but has been a SB16 ISA and several brand "x" cards with similar non-results). Through the magic of ssh, here is a look at /etc/sysconfig/hwconf (with snipping!)Gustavo Seabra wrote:
Mike,
I think this problem with the soundcard detection is known. (I believe I saw this issue in bugzilla.) That's because it doesn't work for ISA devices, as I think your board (and mine) must be. However, Linux still finds it, and cofigures it "correctly". In Knoppix, the soundcard configuration tool has the same problem: it does't detect the ISA card.
Anyway, since Linux does find the board, and the drivers, this isn't such a problem; and I'm sure there's someone working on that now. However, I believe one shouldn't have to max out every setting just to hear a sound on the computer! A good setting should give you audible sounds at a low setting, sou that you can have some control over the volume, don't you think? That's where I believe the ALSA driver has a problem. The OSS diver used by Knoppix works fine.
Gustavo.
In my case if it is making sound I can't hear it with the volume max'd and normally that would blast me out of the room :-).
I think you are correct that it is something related to ALSA as the OSS sound in FC1 was just fine.
In Knoppix I didn't even try the soundcard detection as, well, it just worked...
Thanks for the feedback Gustavo.
Mike
[root@clem ~]# pwd /root [root@clem ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/hwconf - class: UNSPEC bus: ISAPNP detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Creative SB AWE64 PnP - CTL0022" deviceId: CTL0022 pdeviceId: CTL00e4 - class: UNSPEC bus: ISAPNP detached: 0 driver: ns558 desc: "Creative SB AWE64 PnP - CTL7002" deviceId: CTL7002 pdeviceId: CTL00e4 compat: PNPb02f - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152"
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- class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]" vendorId: 10b9 deviceId: 1533 subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 7 pcifn: 0 -
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driver: generic3ps/2 desc: "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse" - class: AUDIO bus: ISAPNP detached: 0 driver: snd-sbawe desc: "Creative SB AWE64 PnP - CTL0045" deviceId: CTL0045 pdeviceId: CTL00e4 - class: CDROM bus: IDE detached: 0 pcifn: 0
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[root@clem ~]#
As others have seen with their configurations, Win98 and Knoppix both detect the sound card with no problem -- in fact, the Knoppix CD even causes some speech to be synthesized during the boot process.
It's not that I really care whether or not sound comes from that machine except that the purpose of having that dual boot junk is for the great grandkids to play on when they're over and I'd just as soon they get started using Linux.
