soundless Gnubie

[ohnoitselton]

I just installed mandrake 8.2 yesterday, my first Linux... All is well except no sound.
lspcidrake tells me I have:
SiS 7018 PCI Audio
I know this is correct cause I double checked in Window$...
the contents of my /etc/modules.conf file are:
alias usb-interface usb-ohci
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-trident
above snd-card-trident snd-pcm-oss
probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias eth0 8139too

What else should I be lookin at??? any hints would be greatly appreciated...

[ohnoitselton]

sorry to post twice, but I found this as well tooling around in KDE Control center
Sound Driver:3.8.2-980706 (ALSA v0.5.12a emulation code)
Kernel: Linux c-66-177-2-127.se.client2.attri.com 2.4.18-6mdk #1 Fri Mar 15 02:59:08 CET 2002 i686
Config options: 0
INSTALLED DRIVERS:
tYPE 10: ALSA emulation
card config:
SIS 7018 PCI Audio at 0xd800, irq 5
Audio Devices:
0: Trident 4dWave (Duplex)

all this seems to tell me I should have sound,
what am I missing? Help...

[mdwatts]

This happens to quite a few...

Have you tried the mixer (I guess Kmixer) to see if the sound levels are up and nothing is muted?

If running as user, you may need to change the permissions on /dev/dsp and perhaps a few others.

chmod 660 /dev/dsp

There was a thread in one of the forums from within the last couple of days that had a list of what devices in /dev needed to have their permissions changed.

<edit> Also add the user to the audio group.

[ 09 May 2002: Message edited by: WattsMD ]

[ohnoitselton]

I added Users to the Audio group, using Kduser... but I don't have a /dev/dsp to chmod
when I try to open a mixer it says... "check that you have permissions for /dev/mixer" or "/dev/audio" but I don't have either of those; i dug with nautilis... Kmidi says "can't open device" and Xmedia says to check the Output plug-in, that no program is blocking sound, and that the sound card is configured properly...
also Harddrake configuration tool plays no sound...argh, I am frustrated... it looks like for now it's reboot to windows to play that good Punk Rock. :confused:

[mdwatts]

You can try

cd /dev

mknod dsp c 14 3

mknod mixer c 14 0

mknod audio c 14 4

I'm not sure if the syntax is correct, so I would suggest you search Google for examples of 'mknod' commands first.