Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX AS 2.1 Installation Manual page 177

Section E.4:Problems After Installation
Remember to run /sbin/lilo -v after changing /etc/lilo.conf.
Note that you can also produce the same effect by actually passing this option when you are specifying
the label/image to use in GRUB or LILO. For example if you had a label named linux, at the boot loader
menu you could type:
linux mem= xx M
Remember to replace xx with the amount of RAM in your system.
E.4.8 Problems with Sound Configuration
If you do not have sound after your installation, you may need to run the sound configuration utility.
As root, type sndconfig in a terminal window.
sndconfig must be run in runlevel 3. More information about runlevels
can be found in the Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide, in chapter Boot
Process, Init, and Shutdown.
If the sndconfig application does not help, you may need to select the Enable sound server
startup option under the
To do this, click on
GNOME Control Center. In the GNOME Control Center, select the
menu. On the right, a
Multimedia
server startup and then click
label=linux
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
read-only
append="mem=128M"
Multimedia => Sound
=> =>
Panel Programs
General
.
OK
Note
in the GNOME Control Center.
=>
Settings GNOME Control Center
sound menu will appear. Select Enable sound
to launch the
submenu of the
Sound
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