Hi,
After trying and Googling for 3 days i am posting this message for help...

I cant hear any kind of sound in my system ..i am using RedHat (Fedora1) and in the Hardware Browser it is showing my Sound Card as :

Vendor : VIA Technologies
Model: VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller
Module: Via82cxxx_audio

And also i tried to install/configure with the drivers provided in the motherboard CD ...but i could nt get any result .

So please help me in configuring my Sound Card(Build in Card with MotherBoard Model:Asus K8V-MX)

Thank you

Fedore Core isn\'t bad for a desktop OS, but try a newer version (FC 3 or 4 might have better driver support).
If you are really looking for a good OS however, try Ubuntu I tried it and it worked great, Debian really is amazing.

Hi,
After trying and Googling for 3 days i am posting this message for help...

I cant hear any kind of sound in my system ..i am using RedHat (Fedora1) and in the Hardware Browser it is showing my Sound Card as :

Vendor : VIA Technologies
Model: VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller
Module: Via82cxxx_audio

And also i tried to install/configure with the drivers provided in the motherboard CD ...but i could nt get any result .

So please help me in configuring my Sound Card(Build in Card with MotherBoard Model:Asus K8V-MX)

Thank you

I am assuming your card is recognized by your system, since you mentioned it is recognized by your "hardware browser", what ever that is. What desktop are you running, and what sound sub-system: alsa or arts? What is the output of lspci ? That will tell you your card is recognized by the system. If the card is recognized, it may be as simple as the volume being muted. Yes, it sounds silly, but it could be.

I am giving the output of lspci ..please check it

[root@localhost root]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0204
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 1204
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 2204
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3204
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4204
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 7204
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b188
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3149 (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3227
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3108 (rev 01)
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In the result it is showing Multimedia Audio Controller ....and also i checked the volume level and also the mute option ......all are fine

2)I tried sndconfig ...
It gave a message as follows :

A PCI sound card was found in your system .
The details are
Model:VIA
Technologies: |VT8233/A/8235
AC97 Audio Controller
and after this it gave a message : A sample sound will be played ......but i couldnt listen any thing ..

SO ...where is the problem

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I checked in the motherboard CD ..and found some packages under Audio for Linux ...i unzipped them and tried as given in the "ReadMe " file ....Those are ALSA sound drivers .....

i did
./config
make
make install

After that it gave a message that all the mixer channels are muted by default ...
Then i opened the mixer and checked that all are in normal ....still i couldnt get any sound ........

Please suggest me some solution.

Thank you

Since youare using ALSA, what mixer are you opening? To unmute everything in ALSA, you would open a command window and type alsamixer you then use the right and eft arrow keys to navigate the mixer from one channel to the next. The "m" key unmutes/mutes channels, and the up and down arrows increase/decrease the volume. There are lots of channels, so don\'t think you are limited to what\'s on the screen. If the master is muted - that\'s your problem.

After you adjust all of the your volume settings, you will need to su to root and run alsactl store to permanently store your mixer settings. Depending on your distro. you may need to run alsactl restore either in a local init script, or start a service at boot, but many distros run a script at init that restores these for you, so after doing "alsactl store", you don\'t have to do anything. Check your distro\'s docs.

Let me know if it works!