Configuring soundcard in linux Redhat 9

nelufar

How can I configure my sound card in Linux Redhat 9? When I use sound configuring tool it says "sound card not detected"
If any one can help me with instructions to follow, it will be of great help?

Thanks for the help.

dduardo

What soundcard are you using?

nelufar

I am using Intel Corp.|82801EB AC'97 Audio soundcard. When I become super user and do Setup --> sound configuration tool , it says "The Intel Corp.|82801EB AC'97 Audio is not supported. "
So, what can I do then?

Thanks for the help.

zefram_c

Most likely this is an integrated sound card. Go to www.intel.com and search for drivers for your particular motherboard; the audio drivers will be there. If they don't have a RH9 driver, you can try other Linux drivers they may have, ie RH Enterprise or SuSE9 drivers.

dduardo

I would try a knoppix cd and see if it can detect it correctly. I'm almost positve linux supports that audio card. RH9 is pretty old and may not include this relatively new chipset.

nelufar

You are right, zefram.

It is a integrated soundcard. I have already tried going to intel site and downloaded the particular driver. But that also could not help. It detected the card but complained that driver is not supported. So, what can be done then?

Thanks for the help.

dduardo

Try this driver:

ftp://download.intel.com/design/moth...sa-1.0.1.sh.gz

I got it from here:

http://support.intel.com/design/moth...z/hz_drive.htm

Make sure your motherboard matches the version number at the top of the page.

To run the file open up a terminal and type this:

gunzip intel8x0-alsa-1.0.1.sh.gz
chmod 744 intel8x0-alsa-1.0.1.sh
su
<enter root password>
./intel8x0-alsa-1.0.1.sh

nelufar

Hi dduardo,
thanks for the link. I followed your instruction , but then this is what it asked:


Intel Motherboard ADI AC97 Audio Device Driver has been compiled
Following are the list of driver that has been load :

ALSA Base driver : Not Loaded
OSS PCM Module : Not Loaded
OSS Mixer Module : Not Loaded
OSS Midi Module : Not Loaded


Do you wish to continue to configure your audio device?



When I said ' Yes' , it complained ' Do you have Alsa Utils installed? ' So, where can I find this?

Thanks for the help

nelufar

Thanks, dduardo

Even though it complained I could listen the sample sound. I don't know why ALSA Utils are required.

Thanks, once again.

dduardo

If you most certainly need alsa for the sound to work properly. I would first suggest getting YUM from here:

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp...rh.fr.i386.rpm

Then from the commandline as root you can do the following:

yum update
yum install alsa*

It will automatically go out to the internet, download any dependences and install the software for you.

nelufar

Thanks for the link dduardo
What are these YUM?

dduardo

yum is a program like apt-get (debian) or emerge (gentoo) that installs software for you and automagically resolves dependency problems by downloading and installing any additional packages you need. These tools make installing software in linux easier than in windows. I don't know how long you've been using linux, but there is thing called "dependancy hell" in which the software you want to install requires ten other programs, which themselves require ten other programs and you have to go and download and install the dependencies before you can install the program you want.

nelufar

dduardo,

Hello!!

I am new to Linux and learning to operate it. So, thanks for explaining. I followed your instructions but when I said "yum update" it took long time and the prompt command didnot appear. Does it takes so much time for updating.

Do these yum's also satisfy motherboard specifications or the link you had given is
sufficient?

Thanks again for the help.

dduardo

This site has better instructions:

http://linux.lsu.edu/yum.php

You'll actually need to place this file in your /etc folder:

http://linux.lsu.edu/yum/redhat/9/yum.conf

It basically has a list of all the servers you can download files from. Rerun "yum update" to get the lastest list of file, which can take some time.

Yum is independent of which computer you have. If you get this file:

http://linux.lsu.edu/yum/redhat/9/yu...5-1.noarch.rpm

You'll see that is says noarch or no architecture. This means that it doesn't matter which computer you have, it willl install on anything that has redhat.

nelufar

Hi dduardo,

When I did "yum update "
After sometime this is what it showed:

Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - freshrpms
retrygrab() failed for:
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i3...rs/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i3...rs/header.info
[Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):


So what should be done then?


Thanks for the help.

zefram_c

Looks like a network connectivity problem to me. I can download the file just fine. Try again?

nelufar

You are right, zefram. There is some connectivity problem. I will try again.
Thanks.