I am trying to get sound on a SiS m810 system. Redhat 7.2, 2.4.7-10 kernel, KDE 2. It has Trident 4D wave PCI sound built in to the motherboard. I've read the howtos, the man pages, numerous tutorials, and searched the web for help, but found no help. There must be a clue here somewhere. The machine is dual booted and sound works with windows. cdplayer works with Linux. Moving the volume control on the taskbar makes a grating sound like a noisy volume control or, if playing a cd it changes the volume. So, not a hardware problem. sndconfig finds the trident, but when it plays the test sound it just goes away - no sound, no prompt, no error message. Control-c brings back my prompt. No error messages. cat test.mp3 > /dev/dsp goes away for four seconds then prompt returns. No sound - no error messages. /dev/sound/ has four files: dsp, mixer, mixer0, and mixer1 I installed alsa 5.10. ./configure, make and make install work properly (I guess) for alsa drivers and alsa lib, but when I try to configure alsa utilities, I get the following: ./configure ..... checking for ALSA LDFLAGS... -lasound checking for libasound headers version >= 0.5.8... found. checking for snd_cards in -lasound... no configure: error: No linkable libasound was found. [bruce@bertha alsa-utils-0.5.10]$ One howto says only alsa driver is needed - don't need alsa libs or alsa utilities. dmesg shows the following: Trident 4DWave/SiS 7018/ALi 5451 PCI Audio, version 0.14.9, 16:59:43 Sep 6 2001PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:01.4 trident: SiS 7018 PCI Audio found at IO 0xcc00, IRQ 11 ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: 0x434d:0x4941 (Unknown) ac97_codec: AC97 Modem codec, id: 0x5349:0x4c21 (Unknown) lsmod shows the following: ....... trident 26528 2 (autoclean) ac97_codec 8832 0 (autoclean) [trident] soundcore 4452 3 (autoclean) [trident] .......
modprobe trident produces the following message in /var/log/messages: Mar 25 15:24:55 bertha modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-6 Restarting the sound server with KDE control panel for device snd-trident results in an information message: error while initializing sound server device snd-trident can't be opened (no such file or directory) sound server will continue using null output device. Same thing with device trident, ac97_codec, soundcore, alsa, dsa On boot, I get a message to run artswrapper as root. If I do this: [root@bertha sounds]# artswrapper >> running as realtime process now (priority 50) /tmp/mcop-bruce is not owned by user but- mcop-bruce is owned by bruce In KDE control center - information - PCI is: Multimedia audio controller [description of audio section similar to what is in dmesg] capabilities - <available only to root> What am I missing? bruce _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
