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No Sound!
Name: John Date: June 27, 2000 at 20:37:20 Pacific
Comment:
Hi, I have an Emachine... =( The Problem... Besides having an Emachine is I get no sound with RedHat Linux and it doesnt even support my soundcard. Is there any way to get sound?
Name: King Mike Date: June 27, 2000 at 22:11:25 Pacific
Reply:
Try going to opensound.com. Download OSS Free and see if it detects your card. If not throw away the E-Box and build a real computer. (No Offence Intended)
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Response Number 2
Name: Delboy Date: June 28, 2000 at 11:11:06 Pacific
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Hi, I have onboard sound which is unsupported - I slapped in a Soundblaster 16 and disabled onboard in the bios - sndconfig configured my soundblaster and when linux found the (now enabled - I need it for my crappy AMR modem in Win98) onboard chip it prompted to ignore it, configure it etc. So I have good sound in both OS's! Alsa project (www.alsa-project.org) are working on soundcard/chip support - you may also find some help there. Delboy:-)
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Response Number 3
Name: John Date: June 29, 2000 at 14:39:49 Pacific
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Me again, Could this be a problem that RedHat is version 6.0 out of the box and has no updates? If I update the kernal might that solve this problem?
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Response Number 4
Name: apple Date: June 30, 2000 at 10:39:39 Pacific
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Is it plug and play? You could always try isapnp and pnpdump to setup your sound. I had problems with a SB 64 Awe until I did this (and I think it's a PCI, but I'll have to check that again 8) Check out the docs for how to use isapnp. It's fairly simple, you just have to edit the text dump from pnpdump.
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Response Number 5
Name: Jonathan Smart Date: July 9, 2000 at 04:19:33 Pacific
Reply:
The tip from delboy is a valid one. With alsa and a very useful article in Linux Format (UK mag) I managed to get my bog standard SB16 value working. Even Windows98 had to be manually setup for this thing.
If you need some instructions ask LF: linuxformat@futurenet.co.uk
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