No Sound in PCLinuxOS

[livin4messiah]

Ok Im a newb I get it. But I can use synaptic, Have wine running, on my 10Gb Partition for PClinuxOS, Even Got my card succesfully running, But I have no sound. To a degree. No Gaim or Kopete Messenger windows buzz, Amarok Doesnt Play My music, But I havea logon sound, and When Something failed, I could here the breaking sound. Odd. And even odder, when I was in FF, Trying to watch a video, I saw the video, but the audio Was all Cracked up, and sounded like a chipmunk. It scared me. So I dont know where to go from here. Any Help would be nice!


Ryan

[Figo Noob]

i am a noob as well
i have the same problem! just whit another sound dev. is a via onboard soundcard.
in my PClinuxOS system i try'd to configerate my device in the terminal but i don't know who to turn it on ?! with this code "/sbin/lsmod" i can see its not turn on..
snd_via82xx 27480 0
who do i get that last Zero turn into a one ? =(

[tudor]

How do i get them?
i can do nothing with linux without them
plese help me
give me some advice

[Figo Noob]

How do i get them?
i can do nothing with linux without them
plese help me
give me some advice

What drivers do you need ?
try synaptic! maybe it can help you.

[angsty]

go into the controll center click on sound and try switchind to oss or something else

[tvilkov]

Hi livin4messiah!
Right...
1 - what kernel are you using? Check using the command uname -a
2 - what sound chip are you using?
3 - check that you have the latest of alsa drivers installed. go to http://www.alsa-project.org/. While you're there, check that alsa supports your chip. Do that by going to Soundcard List.

Possible solutions...

1 - Upgrade the kernel. It worked for me on Fedora Core 6, after the kernel update to 2.16.19 I had sound (do it from the package manager, if possible on PCLinux)
2 - Update your alsa drivers (also from package manager)
3 - Try running a music player from the command line, and see what errors come out (if any).

[mrplumb]

Installed my first linux OS today and I to have no sound. PCLinuxOS is the OS and I get this message after boot and when i try to maually detect my sound card.

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

Complete linux novice here so please help
regards

[netstrider]

Try switching to root and run 'alsaconf' that is if you have alsa installed, else afaik PCLOS uses the apt package manager so you can run apt-cache search alsa in the terminal or use the recommended way via Synaptic.

Good luck