Hi I have installed CentOS 5 on my computer which has an Intel ICH5 sound chip. The card appears as it should, and I can adjust the volume just fine. However, when I try to play a sound file(.ogg for instance), rhythmbox plays through the file, but no sound is heard. I've tried as root, and I've tried doing cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp, and it's all quiet. Output from lspci: 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) I've tried a reboot, I've tried restarting the sound system from system-config-soundcard, but nothing seems to work. Any suggestions please? Kind Regards Jon Jahren
Jon Jahren wrote:> Hi > I have installed CentOS 5 on my computer which has an Intel ICH5 sound > chip. The card appears as it should, and I can adjust the volume just > fine. However, when I try to play a sound file(.ogg for instance), > rhythmbox plays through the file, but no sound is heard. I've tried as > root, and I've tried doing cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp, and it's all > quiet. > Output from lspci: > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER > (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) > > I've tried a reboot, I've tried restarting the sound system from > system-config-soundcard, but nothing seems to work. Any suggestions > please? > Kind Regards > Jon JahrenCan you hear the test music when you're configuring the sound device? Cheers,
Jon Jahren wrote:> Hi > I have installed CentOS 5 on my computer which has an Intel ICH5 sound > chip. The card appears as it should, and I can adjust the volume just > fine. However, when I try to play a sound file(.ogg for instance), > rhythmbox plays through the file, but no sound is heard. I've tried as > root, and I've tried doing cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp, and it's all > quiet. > Output from lspci: > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER > (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)I'm pretty sure you also need to know what codec chip is hung on that ICH5. the ICH5 AC97 stuff only handles the computer interface side, there's an external codec chip that has the actual analog audio I/O, and the drivers need to know what that is. they can be VIA, they can be AnalogDevices SoundMax, they can be SiS, they can be bunches of others.