No sound

[MikeKea]

I'm newbie in Linux. Just installed Mandrake 9.0. Can't play sound. Where to check out sound driver. Sound is o/b. Asus P4S800.
Where is Device Manager? Control Panel?Connection to Internet?
My Network Places??

[llama]

The first thing...I would recomend trying a newer version on linux (Fedora maybe, or the newest version of Mandrake). It looks like that motherboard is pretty new and might not have all the support it needs in Mandrake 9.0, though I have never used Mandrake.

I also am not sure on what control panels Mandrake provides for controlling your hardware. Heres a few things to check though. Open up a terminal windows (looks like a command prompt) and type in the command dmesg. This will give you quite a bit of output on what is going on with your hardware and how it was detected and setup at boot time. Look for a line that says something about audio...I think that the driver for the card you have is i810_audio, so look for that as well, though I could be wrong. If nothing seems to be there on audio then the sound card wasnt detected at all, and a newer version of linux is the easiest fix.

Is your connection to the net a dial-up connection, or are you using a network card? The dmesg command will help to see if your network card is detected as well if that the case. Post back...this is just somewhere to start.

[MikeKea]

Ilama, thank you for your response. I saw i810 driver during installation, but I was unsure, now I have to ask how to change driver for sound card.
Thanks in advance.

[mhl]

Have you checked whether sound is muted? Assuming you're running the KDE desktop (the default I think for MDK 9.0, like my MDK 9.1), check under Multimedia, Sound, Aumix. I had the same problem of no sound when I started with Linux a few months back. I tracked it down to a 'mute' setting in Aumix.

[llama]

Yeah, I have seen quite a few new installs where the sound is muted or just turned down all the way in the mixer. I would check that out first.

Does KDE give any error messages when it starts up? It usually will if the sound is working properly. It sounds like the correct driver is being used though, so I bet you are really close.

Does dmesg give you any hints either?