On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:55 AM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Ok then just a question to solve my thinking. What type of machine is > this as in Brand. It's a custom-built desktop tower from Monarch Computer Systems, who seems to have gone out of business almost exactly two years ago. I'd forgotten how long I've had this box. > The one I'm see the problem on is a HP 400Mhz Celeron > 254MB of ram. P4 @ 3GHz w/ 2GB here. > What is the mixer your using? /usr/libexec/mixer_applet2 from gnome-applets-2.8.0-9.el4 > You may can > try looking at the Sound Preferences Devices Tab to change the options > there to see if that will help. I'm on CentOS 4. There is no "Devices" tab on Sound Preferences. System Settings -> Soundcard Detection locks up on the test sound, just like any other app ...