--- Rory Walsh rorytheroar@yahoo.com wrote:
This one goes out to the the redhat users out there! I have installed redhat 8.0 on my laptop and everything ran very smoothly, everything runs, except the sound(which is the only reason I installed it in the first place!). Basically whenever I log into a session I get an error saying, /dev/dsp/ no such device...., the soundcard I have is just a simple Via Tech AC97, I would have thought that is was a standard enough generic sound card? I tried to install OSS but that failed, giving these results,
your currently detected hardware combination works with the base OSS software so you don't need to select any additional drivers when ordering the permanent OSS license.
Warning: Some of the devices failed to initialize. See /usr/lib/oss/soundon.log for more info.
Some common system setup errors were detected: 1: PCI interrupt not allocated by BIOS
Please look at /usr/lib/oss/errors.log for troubleshooting instructions.
Another thing, I have not used Linux since I was in university and I seem to remember tools like SndConfig where I could config my audio? Things like this seem to be mising from this distribution. I also looked at ALSA but it appears that I need the src for my linux distro, I don't have this either.
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You should first of all configure ALSA
If you want some background about alsa or see if your soundcard is supported - which module and so on
There are RPMS for RedHat 8
Try this link and the Information around it ! http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/sys
If you have a fast Internet connection you should maybe get the whole Planet CCRMA CD Images.
This might take some time at the beginning, but you will save time in future
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