Hi, I am having sound trouble with my RH9 box running kernel 2.4. Sound
config claims it can't find a sound card, yet Windows XP happily makes
all sorts of noises. Then yesterday I was sent mail as root that said:

Modprobe can't locate these modules:
char-major-10-134
sound-service-0-3
char-major-188
sound-slot-0

Looks related, but why don't I get this message at every boot? What was
special then? None of these files seem to exist anywhere on the system.
I'd be surprised if a standard RH installation lacked sound support, so
I don't want to follow the HOWTO's advice and recompile the kernel.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on what to try.

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Ron House house@usq.edu.au
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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:32:20 +1000, Ron House wrote:

> Hi, I am having sound trouble with my RH9 box running kernel 2.4. Sound
> config claims it can't find a sound card, yet Windows XP happily makes
> all sorts of noises. Then yesterday I was sent mail as root that said:

So, tell us your sound card, it's not a National Security issue. Please
keep reading.....

Then yesterday I was sent mail as root that said:
>
> Modprobe can't locate these modules:

The devices are;

> char-major-10-134

10 char Non-serial mice, misc features
134 = /dev/apm_bios Advanced Power Management BIOS


> sound-service-0-3

This related to your sound service, but you have not provided enough
information about your sound card to help.

> char-major-188
188 char USB serial converters
0 = /dev/ttyUSB0 First USB serial converter 1 = /dev/ttyUSB1
Second USB serial converter

This is not related to your sound service

> sound-slot-0

This is also related to your sound card.

> Looks related, but why don't I get this message at every boot? What was
> special then? None of these files seem to exist anywhere on the system.
> I'd be surprised if a standard RH installation lacked sound support, so
> I don't want to follow the HOWTO's advice and recompile the kernel.
> Thanks in advance for any thoughts on what to try.

Yes you do get them every time you boot, look at your /var/log/messages
file. They are not files but they are missing devices. Red Hat does have
sound support, not all sound cards are supported however. Since you don't
provide any information about your sound card, nobody can provide anything
other then general advice. What were you doing when root sent you this
message?

First, bring the Red Hat installation current. This means download and
install the latest available updates as needed for your system. Look into
using apt/synaptic or yum to accomplish this. Since Red Hat Linux 9 is now
EOL (end of life), no longer supported by Red Hat, visit;

http://www.fedoralegacy.org/

Second, as root figure out which sound card you have. From the console or
xterm session type; lspci -v

Sample output (just the sound portion);

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97
Audio Controller (rev 01)

Subsystem: Wistron Corp.: Unknown device 2005
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 I/O ports at 1c00 I/O
ports at 18c0 [size=64] Memory at d0080c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=512] Memory at d0080800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2


Then visit; http://www.alsa-project.org/ and gather the information to
hopefully configure your sound card. You can download/install the alsa
rpm's from the fedoralegacy link above and from here also(and lots of
other places); http://shrike.freshrpms.net/


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