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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat [Solved] I am not able to hear any sound from CentOS 5.9 Post 302891734 by Perderabo on Friday 7th of March 2014 01:55:04 PM

03-07-2014

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We have a bunch of Dell Optiplex 980's that are running RedHat 5.1. The sound was not working and I had to get it working. According to my notes what I did was:

Step 1 is to Upgrade the ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) subsystem by installing the following packages:

Code:

rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps alsa-lib-1.0.24.1-35.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps alsa-lib-1.0.24.1-35.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps alsa-lib-devel-1.0.24.1-35.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps alsa-utils-1.0.24.2-24.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps libasound2-1.0.24.1-35.el5.x86_64.rpm

Step 2 is to upgrade the kernel:

Code:

rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.x86_64.rpm

Step 3 is to reinstall the NVIDIA video driver which the new kernel just overlaid:

Code:

/bin/sh /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-270.41.19.run -a --ui=none -X -q -z

Run alsamixer and ensure that the volumes are up and unmuted. You can test the sound with: speaker-test -l10 -c6 -twav

This exact procedure probably won't help you. But it might give you an idea where to start.

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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       Use  --initdb  to create a new database if one doesn't already exist (existing database is not overwritten), use --rebuilddb to rebuild the
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SEE ALSO

       popt(3),
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       rpmkeys(8),
       rpmsign(8),
       rpm2cpio(8),
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       rpmspec(8),

       rpm --help - as rpm supports customizing the options via popt aliases it's impossible to guarantee that	what's	described  in  the  manual
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