ok I wanted to try linux 3 months ago. so i downloaded mandrake ...long story short no sound nuthin was muted etc. aumix etc was fine i did drakeconf and harddrake...nuthin. so i went to slackware....no sound.. this led me 2 gentoo. no sound.. now i installed redhat 8 regardless..no sound. i did lsmod and modprobe sblive... i have a sound blaster live value (standard 2 most) i get sound fine in windows.. umm. i did the hardware manager and nuthi. it says sound card detected fine and shows like emuk100 or sumethin and says play test sound.. yet i hear nuthin. i did alot of probing but i cant chnge my sb sound card 2 any generic one all i want is basic sound nuthin more nuthin werks. oh new pc failry all seems fine.. whats funny is in windosw i had no sound until i checked on volc ontrol digital output only.. help pls i respond 2 posts when i know. ive been away for abitpls any ideas would help. ty for ur time. from forrest

I hope this helps you. I just figured this one out on my computer. Even as root, my /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp didnt have proper permissions set. After I freed it up a little bit more, my sound applications were given proper access to it to pump out sound. This was one of my biggest headaches in linux. Now I am very happy.

open a terminal window and type

sndconfig

If it doesn't work tell us if it says there's no sound card found or you don't hear anything during playback?

says sound card detected and no sound.. dragon? what was supposed 2 help u said nuthin lol ..no sound at all during playback

go to /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer and look at their permissions. try to allow everybody to have full access to it. after that, test your sound apps. do this as root at first. make sure your sound apps are using /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer. usually the oss output pluging uses these devices. also look for the mixer control panel to see if every volume was raised up high and that nothing is muted. Do this for every sound card that shows up in your mixer control panel. should your sound start working again, make sure you lock down your permissions for /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer just enough so that you still get sound but things are insecure. I hope this works. I cant think of anything to solve this with. I too am a newbie.

soundserver didnt werk hmmm. ty guys. i did 777 on both still nuthin. it sees my card emu10k1 but (sblive) test sound plays nuthin:-( nuthin is muted :-( what the heck.

:-( still nuthin

Are you running in gnome or kde? even in gnome, you may still need kde and arts. i vaguely remember something about how arts is important. but to get arts you need kde. i could be wrong but you have nothing to lose. also, play around with all the different output plugins and with their respective configurations.

either still nuthin god. i just tied trustix and gentoo and lycoris cause its made for music lol no luck still pls help :-(

this does not help the original guy
but i just installed mandrake 9 as a first
linux. how do you configure you sound card?