Perhaps it is muted. If you are using the ALSA drivers (I am not too familiar with MDK to say whether they use them or not), but they default to muted. Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Clark" <peter-clark at bethel.edu> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:52 AM Subject: [TCLUG] Sound card recognized, but no sound > Here's an odd one: I'm building a computer for a friend and put Mdk 9.0 on > it. Finally got the modem to work, but the sound card, while recognized, > doesn't play any sound. I've checked all the obvious things: the speakers are > on and connected to the right jack, volume turned up, but still nothing. > The sound card is built into the motherboard (AC97) and lspci -v shows that > it's there (IRQ 18). Kcontrol (Information -> Sound) recognizes it and arts > seems to be set up correctly. There was no nasty error message when KDE > started, saying '/dev/dsp not available' or anything like that. As far as I > can tell, it is enabled in BIOS--what gives??? > :Peter > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >