On Friday 06 July 2007 05:17, Garrick Staples wrote: > 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. Ok tried that command, at first it did not work so I specified the full path and here is the out put. [john at localhost ~]$ su Password: [root at localhost john]# modprobe snd-mpu401 bash: modprobe: command not found [root at localhost john]# /sbin/modprobe snd-mpu401 [root at localhost john -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240