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Calum:
So, i found out yesterday that my brand spanking new mandrake 8.2 doesn't autodetect and configure my SiS 7018 sound card. This is something that Druaga (Master of Reality? i forget...) told me already, but i just found out for myself last night. I ran XMMS, and i could see the sound going through the little VU meter on the GUI, so i know that the system is really playing the sound, but the sound card is not making a peep.

The odd thing about this is, back when i had red hat 7.0, the sound card worked fine and dandy, as i remember i did no configuration at all for it, and it worked. Why should it not work in mandrake 8.2 but more to the point, is there some rpm that i can get off of my red hat 7.0 CDs to make my sound card work?

I don't know what to start looking for really, or if there's some program that can help me set up this sound card or if there's just a few significant lines needing added to some distant config file somewhere, so please, any ideas?

I know in my heart of hearts that VoidMain will probably be the first to try and help here, so thanks VoidMain and thanks to anybody else who can help also...

creedon:
I have an SiS6326 sound card.  Just for shits & giggles, I figured that I'd take a look at the SiS website to see what was there.  It appears they support most of their current soundcards in Linux, so you might want to give them a try.  Might also want to set up ALSA, I'm fairly certian it'll support your card.  Remember, GOOGLE is your friend!

Calum:
i thought i didn't have to recompile? just install the driver from the site? i'd rather apply a patch than wait for 27 Mb of data to come down the phone line, the actual recompiling is not a big hassle though, as you'd know if you had ever used a real OS.

Not to count a gift horse's teeth before they're hatched though, guys, thanks for the answers. I just assumed that SiS didn't support their kit in linux, since i have not found any real support for my SiS modem or my SiS video card (this latter is supported by newest version of mandrake, and i hear by red hat 7.2 also), then again, the only website i could find for SiS was written in Chinese...
elusive buggers!

Calum:
i'll just take the opportunity to post this url: http://www.sis.com/support/driver/linux.htm because it's the page from sis.com with all their official linux drivers on it, that you guys mentioned. I wanted to post it because i have bumped into a few other disgruntled people online with grumps about the SiS chipsets and i want to direct them to this page so they can get all the urls all in one...

Now, thanks for looking out those links for me, i had found the first two modem ones already although i haven't had a chance to try them out yet, i will tonight, your last link, seems to be specific to the 2.2 kernel. I do actually have the 2.4 kernel, and as SiS snidely point out on their drivers page, Audio support can be compiled in in the 2.4 kernel. It seems odd to me that this was not automatically done when i installed mandrake, since it is possible to do it. No matter, i will try and do that tonight too (after i have tried that patch).
The video links are no longer necessary, since mandrake configures the SiS630 (but not the 650 apparently) fine all by itself, although i am using the framebuffer, fearing catastrophe if i go for full 3D support. I am told it is a bug in the hardware, but what it is is moot if they can work around it.

Okleydoke, thanks again, i'm just confused about how the SiS 7018 card actually did work with red hat 7.0 (2.2 kernel), with no tweaking from me!?!?!?

[ May 08, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

voidmain:
Just curious Calum.  What are the permissions on /dev/dsp?  I've seen a lot of distros shipped that only allow write access to it via root. Also, what is the output from the commands "/sbin/lspci" and "cat /proc/devices"?

And finally, thanks to Zombie for good input.

[ May 08, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

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