From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; H010818) Description of problem: I have a Dell CPi366 laptop. When I install RedHat Beta (both Limbo and (NULL)) the sound does not work. When I run the mixer it tells me that I do not have permission to /dev/mixer. When I change the permissions on the mixer, I still get the same error. I also tried using 'aumix', but I get the same type of error (both as root and as a normal user). When I use the sound card configuration tool, I see the following: Vendor: Neomagic Corporation Model: [MagicMedia 256AV Audio] Module: nm256_audio I press the "Play test sound" button and hear nothing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to play sound :-) 2. 3. Actual Results: Nothing. That's the problem. Expected Results: I expected sound. Or some error indicating why sound could not be produced. Additional info:
I have this same problem with my sony Vaio Z505RX with both null and psyche. I got sound again by using sndconfig as follows: 1) start sndconfig as root 2) went through automatic configuration (doesn't play test sound) 3) go through manual configuration (default values choose nm256_audio) 4) system plays test sound and sound consistently works until reboot i should also note that i could barely here the sound at first because my bios had the volume set low on boot. Also running redhat-config-soundcard from a console instead of the menu gave me error messages about sox and /dev/dsp, i'll post the exact wording later
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