No Sound Audio CD Compaq SR1200NX

[Rick Stevens]

William J. Salvino wrote:
> I have a new computer: Compaq Presario SR1200NX. It has an Asus A7V8X-LA 
> motherboard with KM400A (northbridge) and VT8237 (southbridge) VIA 
> chips. I installed another HD and installed Fedora Core 3 from 
> CheapBytes.com cd's on the new HD following the excellent instructions 
> at http://mpeters.us/linux/dualboot_grup.php. I have been working my way 
> through Stanton Finley's excellent Installation Notes where applicable 
> to my system: 
> http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_3_installation_notes.html.
> 
> When I put an audio cd in the drive the cd player launches but will not 
> play the cd. I updated udev with yum and unmuted the volume controls but 
> still no change.
> 
> I can receive audio streams with Real10 and the BBC2 radio player 
> launches and works inside of Firefox.

You probably need to hook up the audio cable between the CD drive and
the motherboard.

> On the applications menu...system settings...soundcard detection audio 
> devices gui reports Vendor: Via, Model: Technologies,Inc. 
> VT8233/A/8235/8237 audio controller, Module: snd-via82xx. When I click 
> on the play test sound bar I do not hear the sample sound and I get the 
> error message "Automatic detection of the sound card did not work. Audio 
> will not be available on the system."

I can't speak to that error.

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