On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:09:46AM +0100, John Bowden alleged: > On Friday 06 July 2007 04:44, Garrick Staples wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:30:58AM +0100, John Bowden alleged: > > > The sound card is an on board one. > > > > > > class: AUDIO > > > bus: PCI > > > detached: 0 > > > desc: "nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio" > > > vendorId: 10de > > > deviceId: 03f0 > > > subVendorId: 1849 > > > subDeviceId: 0862 > > > pciType: 1 > > > pcidom: ? ?0 > > > pcibus: ?0 > > > pcidev: ?5 > > > pcifn: ?0 > > > - > > > class: AUDIO > > > bus: ISAPNP > > > detached: 0 > > > driver: snd-mpu401 > > > desc: "PNPb006" > > > deviceId: PNPb006 > > > > > > The sound card detection program does see it but no sound come out when I > > > test it. I'm not sure but I think that the nvidia chip set may be quite a > > > new one and I'm beginning to think it might not be supported yet in > > > Linux. > > > > The listing for a driver implies that it is supported. This might be a > > dumb question, but did you check the volume settings in the mixer app? > Not such a dumb question, I had tried running the alsamixer command when I had > F7 installed but not after getting rid of F7 and installing CentOS. I have > just tried the command from the cli and here is what I got. > > [john at localhost ~]$ alsamixer > > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device > [john at localhost ~]$ > > When KDE starts up it gives me a error message about the sound problem. Next > time I reboot I will make a note of what it is. I know that the speakers are > plugged into the correct socket as this machine is one of two that dual boots > windozs and I get sound when I run windoz to play games. > I'm off to bed now as its just past 5am so will shut down this box and have > another try later on today. Thanks for the help so far though. That means the driver isn't loaded. 'modprobe snd-mpu401' as root and try again. -- Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin University of Southern California Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070705/513022c8/attachment-0004.sig>