RH 9.0 unable to play sound....

[becga]

I am using red Hat 9.0, with
sound card : VT8233AC97 Audio controller.
Driver : Via82cxxx_audio

Once in a while I made the thing to do some work,. i.e. play some sound.
It was running and I heard the guiter sound.

After that it just is not running. I tried almost all possible ways.

1. Uninstalled & reinstalled the sound driver.
2. Recompiled the alsa driver.
Nothing seems to work.

[Vergil83]

did you unmute the sound after recompling alsa?
alsamixer

[becga]

How to do that?
I could not make a single thing out of it.

here is how my /etc/modules.conf

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alias eth0 via-rhine
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 usb-uhci
alias char-major-81 videodev

alias char-major-81-0 via_v4l_drv
alias char-major-81-1 via_v4l_drv
alias char-major-81-2 via_v4l_drv


#====== added those lines =============
#alias char-major-116 snd
#options snd major=116 cards_limit=1
#--- Intel 8x0 , SiS 7012 and NVidia----------
#alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
#options snd-intel8x0 index=0 id="ICH"
#--- Via8233 Via686a -------------------------------
#alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
#options snd-via82xx index=0 id="VIA"
alias snd-card-0 via82cxxx_audio
options via82cxxx_audio index=0 id="VIA"
#--- ATI -------------------------------
#alias snd-card-0 snd-atiixp
#options snd-atiixp index=0 id="ATI"
#=================================
#alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
#alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
#alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
#alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
#alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
#=================================

alias /dev/ttySHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/modem /dev/ttySHSF
alias char-major-240 /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/cuaHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias char-major-241 /dev/ttySHSF
options hsfserial serialmajor=240 calloutmajor=241
alias char-major-242 hsfosspec
alias /dev/hsfdiag* /dev/hsfdiag
alias /dev/hsfdiag* /dev/hsfdiag
alias char-major-243 /dev/hsfdiag
options hsfosspec dcpmajor=242 diagmajor=243
probeall /dev/ttySHSF hsfpcibasic2 hsfmc97ich hsfmc97via hsfmc97ali hsfusbcd2
probeall hsfserial hsfpcibasic2 hsfmc97ich hsfmc97via hsfmc97ali hsfusbcd2
alias /dev/ttySHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/cuaHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/ttySHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/cuaHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/hsfdiag* /dev/hsfdiag
alias /dev/ttySHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/cuaHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/hsfdiag* /dev/hsfdiag
alias /dev/ttySHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/cuaHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/hsfdiag* /dev/hsfdiag
alias /dev/ttySHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/cuaHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/hsfdiag* /dev/hsfdiag
alias /dev/ttySHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/cuaHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/hsfdiag* /dev/hsfdiag
alias /dev/ttySHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/cuaHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/hsfdiag* /dev/hsfdiag
alias /dev/ttySHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/cuaHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/hsfdiag* /dev/hsfdiag
alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :

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Now what to do???


How to unmute???

[Vergil83]

run(run from the command line)

alsaconf

to configure your soundcard with alsa then run

alsamixer

and unmute it.

[becga]

For alsaconf it is saying command not found.
I think my ionstallation is totally bye-bye...

And running alsamixer, it is saying Default Device not found.

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device