RealTek AC97 sound card

[huh?]

Ok, screwed up again..tried to partition my XP hd..so, now XP is gone, and have RH9 installed. the installer found all the hardware except the sound card..
So far, have not found any info for getting the sound card to work.
Any help ?

[CopperTop]

Try running sndconfig as root. It should find and reinstall your sound card...

[huh?]

CopperTop: thanks, but, "whereis" doesn't show it...I think I have to install it from the CD's....will try that tonight when I get home from work..

[huh?]

ok, got sndconfig installed..but, it says the RealTek AC'97 is not supported....so, back to the drawing board..thanks all

[lordnothing]

you could recompile your kernel with the code for that card built into it instead of as a module..

[kriss]

do a "lspci | grep audio" and paste that line in here..

Good luck

[huh?]

it just says "command not found"..but, I could be in the wrong directory or some such..

[huh?]

[james@localhost james]$ /sbin/lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G [Springdale-G] Chipset Host Bridge (rev
02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2571 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB ICH5 IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP
8x] (rev a2)
02:0b.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem (rev 02)
02:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
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I was right..wrong location..sorry..

[kriss]

The RealTek card is your ehernet card, no wounder it doesnt work.. :P

I'm not at my computer atm, but try to modprobe the i810_audio module and tell me if its not working. To check its working, do this "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp" and if your speakers starts to beep, its working. Kill it by ctrl-c

Note: when you are doing some tasks, like lspci and using commands in /sbin etc, you should become root by "su -" (dont forget the - or else you wont get root's paths). So you can type "modprobe, lspci, init" etc etc

Good luck

[huh?]

Kriss: the ethrenet card is working just fine..and the hardware browser see's the Intel 82801EB sound chip, but, it say's it's not supported..read line 00:1f.5 of the print out..I believe that's the sound chip...