RH9 & SoundCard

[trey85stang]

I have a cheap sound card.. that i am trying to get to work with linux.. ive checked quite a few web resources with no luck..

The sound card i have is a CM8738 (pci version), it is automatically detected.. but it will not play sound.


Now.. most of the stuff on the web says they can listen to cd's etc. with the onbaord version of this sound card.. but no sound.

However the pci version.. ive read that some people got it to work.. and some have not.

any ideas of whatI should try and do?? I have no clue what to try?

thanks
trey

[AbecX]

lsmod

paste to me what it says.

[trey85stang]

[root@localhost root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 3516 0 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5116 0 (autoclean)
vfat 13004 0 (autoclean)
fat 38808 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
cmpci 35912 0 (autoclean)
soundcore 6404 4 (autoclean) [cmpci]
agpgart 47776 4 (autoclean)
parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13268 0 (autoclean) (unused)
tulip 43840 0
keybdev 2944 0 (unused)
mousedev 5492 1
hid 22148 0 (unused)
input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 26348 0 (unused)
usbcore 78784 1 [hid usb-uhci]
ext3 70784 2
jbd 51892 2 [ext3]
[root@localhost root]#


I bolded the module name... this is what is listed in the auto detect for the sound card.

thanks
trey

[trey85stang]

FWIW.. i think there is some kind of resource conflict... after i installed the card... it locks up every now and again.. it does this randomly though :confused:

[AbecX]

up2date -uf

[trey85stang]

Originally posted by AbecX
up2date -uf

damn.. ill have to get back to you on this one.. i dont have an internet connection i can use on linux :(

anything else i can try? or will updating fix it?

[AbecX]

recompiling your kernel will fix it for sure, why dont you just buy a decent sound card? ;) I'm sure you can probably get it to work with out recompiling and just getting the module loaded correctly.

modprobe cmpci
check dmesg for errors

[trey85stang]

Originally posted by AbecX
recompiling your kernel will fix it for sure, why dont you just buy a decent sound card? ;) I'm sure you can probably get it to work with out recompiling and just getting the module loaded correctly.

modprobe cmpci
check dmesg for errors

ive done modprobe cmpci... it doesnt give any error messages.. im too poor for a sound card right now. :(

im not sure how to recompile a kernal (unless thats what up2date does :confused ).. ill seach for a good ol howto.. worst case it will hose the os ;)

thanks
trey

[AbecX]

type

dmesg|grep CM8738

and

dmesg|grep error

Show me what they say.

up2date wont recompile, but it will give you the latest stuff, of which the latest kernel might have more support.

[trey85stang]

Originally posted by AbecX
dmesg|grep CM8738

and

dmesg|grep error


nither of those return anything... just goes to the next root prompt :confused:

[AbecX]

dmesg |grep audio

[trey85stang]

i get the same result...

[root@localhost root]# dmesg|grep cm8738
[root@localhost root]# dmesg|grep error
[root@localhost root]# dmesg|grep audio
[root@localhost root]#

[AbecX]

lspci

[trey85stang]

output =

[root@localhost root]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82810 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 01)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 01)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
01:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
01:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor AU8810 Vortex Digital Audio Processor (rev 02)
[root@localhost root]#

[AbecX]

Do you have onboard sound? It looks like you have two sound controllers.

[trey85stang]

there is an onboard sound card... but i threw in a pci sound card cause i didnt think aureal would have linux drivers,

could that be the problem? do i need to disable the onboard sound?

[AbecX]

Take that pci card out, that thing is junk, use the onboard.

[trey85stang]

ok... i ditched the junk one... how do i get the onboard one to work? :confused:

[AbecX]

sndconfig

[trey85stang]

the aureal says it is not supported during sndconfig...

what is a decent pci card.. that works well under linux? I got a job that starts monday.. got a phone call about an hour ago. So ill spring for a new sound card now :)

I just want somthing that will emit sound :cool:

[AbecX]

I've gotten a ton of different sound cards to work in linux, I dont see why you are having such a problem lol...

Is the computer connected to the internet at all? You got dsl/cable?

[trey85stang]

im on it through a proxy right now... on dial up :(