[ale] No sound

[Thompson Freeman]

If I remember correctly, RH now sets the volume down to zero straight out
of the box. 

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Cor van Dijk (nav) wrote:

> Hello,
> I had Redhat distro's for several years and they always operated my
> Soundblaster without a problem Now I installed Redhat 7.1 from scratch
> and the sound appears to be broken. Same thing with SuSE7.3, which
> complains that it can not find /dev/dsp. Redhat gives a warning about a
> "magicdev" which does not seem to work; don't know whether or not this
> is related to the soundproblem. I did run "sndconfig" which says that I
> have no card at all! I used sndconfig with several  io, irq and dma, but
> usually I get a hung system,  only a hard reboot will revive it. Things
> like "playcd" seems to work properly, but no sound.
> 
> Sound works fine on the winbloze drive in the same machine.  The
> soundblaster card is an ISA card and several years old.  Any idea's?
> Thanks in advance.
> Cor van Dijk
> 
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