Sound Problems in Red Hat 9

[Net Llama!]

On 07/20/03 14:40, Iraj Medifar wrote:

> Hi everyone.
> 
> I just installed RH9. Overall, it works fine for me, but I have been
> experiencing problems getting my sound card to work.   My Intel 82801 AC
> '97 - i810 was detected and configured automatically during
> installation.  And I do have sound events as root.  But there it all
> ends.  As user, I cannot get the sound events to work or the CD player
> to play music.  I am wondering if my problem is among those referred to
> by Marco Fioretti in his review of RH9 in the August issue of Linux
> Journal.  Here is what he says about multimedia in RH9: 
> 
> "The short story is that Red Hat 9 can play music and movies fine, it
> simply doesn't want to by default.  The distribution does not include
> MP3 players, deCSS or anything else, including the fortune program, that
> cannot be certified as freely redistributable with respect to current
> law.   ....."
> 
> He then goes on to say that the problem may be solved by "... installing
> the missing packages, which is really easy anyway".
> 
> If someone has experienced the same problem or knows how it should be
> solved, I would appreciate his or her help. What are the files that need
> to be installed? 

No, that's a completely different issue.  If you can get sound as root, 
then the 'problem' that Marco referred to is not the problem you are 
experiencing.

> 
> If it helps at all, my /etc/modules.conf file looks like this:
> 
> alias eth0 8139too
> alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
> alias usb-controller1 usb-uhci
> alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
> post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
> 
>>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> 
> pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
> 
>>/dev/null 2>&1 || :

I'm guessing that your problem is that the users group doesn't have rwx on 
/dev/dsp and/or /dev/mixer


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