sound problems

[rfjk]

can anyone help me I am new to linux and when i use sound configuration tool my system freezes.
My sound I think is via ac97
each time I have tried it the system freezes I have to turn off the pc then linux stops during booting
the only way to get back into linux is to reinstall it

 

[asb555]

What Distribution of linux are you using?
What is the name of the configuration tool you're using?

 

[rfjk]

I am using redhat7
the tool i think is sndconfig

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

There is a known bug with both i810 chipset and ac97 onboard sound in redhat 7.1 . See -->

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37194

The recommended approach by redhat is to disable the onboard sound chip in your computer's bios setup.

Rgds