On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 14:33, Panos Tsapralis (TELLAS) wrote: > I posted this issue some time ago but got no answer, that could help me > resolve it, so, here I am again, in hope of getting some better help > this time: > > No matter what I do, I cannot get any sound out of my system, except for > the various dings & clicks of the user interface in Gnome. I am trying > to use the CD & audio players in Gnome or in KDE but nothing is heard > (although the applications seem to work O.K.). > > I am confident that my sound card (ESS Maestro3) is recognised by the OS > at boot time, since the system log mentions its name and configuration > (identical to those derived under Windows XP). As an additional proof of > evidence, I get the sounds of the Gnome UI. The only thing, that > troubles me, is the following messages (in various parts of the system > log): > > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3, > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0, > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1. > > I strongly suspect that the roots of my problem are in these messages. > What do they mean and what should I do in order to resolve this? > ------ I am by no means an expert in this but this is the way that I handled it on my Sony Picturebook... edit /etc/modules.conf and remove any and all references to sound run the command 'depmod -ae' run the command 'sndconfig' (this may not be installed by default - if not installed, use rpm to install it from the distro cd's or if you have the machine on an rhn account... up2date sndconfig Craig -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list