[PD] [OT]Audio configuration on Redhat 8.0? HELP!!

[Rory Walsh]

Yeah it exists alright, but everytime I log onto a
session I get a message saying it doesn't exist? I
went into my BIOS on start up but I found nothing to
do with PnP options? Any other suggestions? 


 --- Dan Neveu <neveu at buffalo.edu> wrote: > I'm no
hardware expert, but maybe one of these
> points will help:
> 
> As far as the OSS irq problem: check that plug and
> play enabled in your
> bios so that linux can handle the irq allocation.
> beyond that, i don't know.
> 
> Sndconfig is not installed by default on RH8.0+. You
> should be able to find
> it on installation disk 3, in the RPM's folder. 
> 
> Finally, check the /dev directory to see if dsp even
> exists. There's been at
> least one occasion where i've had to manually add a
> symlink to dsp0.
> 
>   ln -s dsp dsp0
> 
> good luck,
> dan
> 
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, [iso-8859-1] Rory Walsh 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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