RedHat/SiS on board sound question

[Yeeny]

Ok, I just installed RedHat, to dual boot with XP, and everything is working great. Except for my sound. I have a Phillips Rhythmic Edge 703 sound card, and I could not find any drivers for it, so I decided to turn my onboard on in bios. Well, it seemed to find it, but I still have no sound. So I downloaded linux drivers for my onboard, but when I try to open them, it says there is no viewer associated with this file, and won't let me do anything. I tried running it through the run command both under root and my regular accounts, and it says permission denied. So I am wondering if someone can point me in the right direction, and see if I can get something working. That would be great.

TIA for any help/suggestions you can give. 🙂

 

[yakko]

I have no help for this one but try going here for answers.

 

[n0cmonkey]

A link to the drivers you downloaded would be great. That way we can see what you see 😉

If the file you downloaded was a tarball (.tar.gz or .tgz extention), go to the command line and type:
tar -zvxf filename.tar.gzCR
cd filenameCR
more READMECR

Also look for an INSTALL file.

EDIT: Also what kind of onboard sound do you have?

 

[manly]

Unless I'm mistaken, most onboard sound out there is basic AC97, which is supported by ALSA (and probably by vanilla kernel modules as well).

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: manly
Unless I'm mistaken, most onboard sound out there is basic AC97, which is supported by ALSA (and probably by vanilla kernel modules as well).

The ALSA page has 4 SiS entries, which is why I asked what chipset it is. I realize most are AC97, but there have been some new ones popping up...

SiS SiS 733
SiS SiS 735intel8x0aka SiS 7012
SiS SiS 740
SiS SiS 745

 

[Heisenberg]

Forgive me if I'm restating the obvious, but did you check the permissions on the installer script to make sure it's executable?