Sound Probs soundmax

[Palin]

Ok this is becoming frustrating I am trying to get the sound card on my moms VPR Matrix machine to work. Windows has it installed as a soundmax card.
sndconfig detects it as an I810 card.

I have tried changing the permissions on the /dev device as listed in other threads. I searched the Red Hat support site and what they have there doesn't seem to be my problem. PNP OS is turned off. I've tried to install the alsa sound drivers but those don't seem to be taking hold.

This is a new install of Red Hat 8.

and ideas?

[JamminJoeyB]

I am no expert, but to get sound activated in Evil Entity I had to do the edit some files.

had to add "/sbin/modprobe i810_audio" wc to the rc.modues file. Not sure where RH has this file stored mine is in /etc/rc.d

once that was done I had to chmod 666 /dev/dsp

I dont know if this advice will help you, but I know now that the /rc.d/modulles is what loads the modules for your kernel.

you can simply try entering /sbin/modprobe i810_audio in a terminal to see if that starts your audio.

[Palin]

Thank you for the respone Iooked at the rc files and found one called rc.sysinit and it looks like this file is called at sys start up and it uses the modprobe command. I checked and the way the system is setup it should subsitute the name with an alias.

[JamminJoeyB]

Any luck with getting audio going. After setting up my mouse wheel that was the next priorty. Got to have that going so I can rock out to crystal method and chemical bros while I tweak linux and surf the net.

[Palin]

unfortunately I haven't gotten anywhere still trying though

[Palin]

well from some reading and the output of sndconfig looks like i won't have sound until I can get a 2.5 kernel :(

gonna try the 2.5.59 kernel and see if that works for me.