Sound problems with Red Hat 8.0, Gnome 2.0 on a Dell XPS T500

[kwelch]

If I put an audio CD into the drive, it plays just fine however I do not get any system or event sounds. The sound preferences show the server as enabled and event sounds are selected. If I go to Soundcard Detection and select play test sound, I do not hear anything

[kwelch]

PS. All the controls in the volume setting look fine

[mdwatts]

Also try aumix (volumes/muting).

It could be a permission problem.

As root

chmod 660 /dev/dsp
chmod 660 /dev/audio

Also add the user to the audio group.

Are the soundcard drivers/modules loaded?

lsmod (list loaded modules)

You can actually try some of the suggestions in the other soundcard related threads as there have been many of them.

[kwelch]

Eureka!

OK so this is an old thread but just for the record...

I discovered that my WebCam is getting installed as the primary audio device i.e. If I disconnect my webCam and restart my sound works.