Re: audio problem, compaq

From: P Gentry (rdgentry1_at_cablelynx.com)
Date: 12/12/03 

Date: 11 Dec 2003 21:04:45 -0800

"FxM" <mastronardif@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<TZCdnTrfrecdk0ui4p2dnA@comcast.com>...
> I have a Compaq shitsario 4230ES. The sound used to worked w/ win95.
> But w/ my linux its not recognizing the built in sound card. What can this
> newbie
> do to make the sound come out of this piece of crap.
>
> os: SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) - Kernel 2.4.20-4GB (2).
>
> TIA
> FM :{

What kind of sound card do you got? Maunfacturer / model / chip? We
know it's an older one. Google for yours to find some info from past
users, issues, etc.

At a command prompt type:
$ whereis sndconfig

It's probably not installed. Red Hat stopped installing it with RH8,
since they considered the cards it configured were legacy. However,
my RH cd's did have the rpm. Look for something like
sndconfig-0.69-1.rpm or locate it at an rpm repository site.

Cards are old, code is old, so imagine no changes have been made.
Should work. You should run this outside of X if I remember.
Ctrl+Alt+F4 to get out of X, run sndconfig as root, Ctrl+Alt+F7 to
return to your desktop. You may need to log out and back in, or even
reboot -- can't remember.

Damn, this is the _4th_ time I've answered this today! Old cards
never die, I guess.

hth,
prg
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