Re: Sound not working



Jim Haynes wrote:
> If you go to the Fedora support forum you will find mountains of
> postings about sound not working under FC4. In some cases it is as
> simple as the volume control being turned all the way down, but
> yours doesn't sound like that. I had the problem, and eventually
> was able to get sound working, but I'm not sure what I did that
> made the difference. Anyway, suggest you read www.fedoraforum.org
> for some of the suggestions there.

I know what I did to get it to work on CentOS 4.2.

I replaced the ISA sound board (that worked just fine with Red Hat Linux 9,
and worked just fine with Windows XP Home) with a very similar PCI sound
board. It seems the 2.6 kernels just cannot stand ISA sound boards, at least
Creative Labs Sound Blaster ones.

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