Hey everyone, I'm fairly a newbie when it comes to linux. I'm currently
working on a RH9 install. And I'm really only having 2 major problems.

For whatever reason, I cannot seem to get my soundcard either installed or
correctly configured. Its a SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio card, built
into my Asus motherboard. RH9 initially dedected it as some Intel card with
AC'97 codec stuff. I was able to download linux drivers for the SoundMax
from Asus' website, and compile and install the module. But I've pretty much
hit a wall as far as getting it to configure and work. If anyone could help
guide me though this that would be great.

The other issue I'm having is probably simpilar, I just don't know what to
do. I was able to install and configure drivers for my SATA controller card.
And it works when I initially loaded the module. However, I cannot get RH to
detect the device and load the module on startup. Kudzu just tells me that
it can't find a driver for it. Any help getting this to work correctly would
be appretiated as well.

Thanks in advance,

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Joseph

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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:45:28 -0400, Joseph Daigle staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> Hey everyone, I'm fairly a newbie when it comes to linux. I'm
> currently working on a RH9 install.

Why something so old?

> For whatever reason, I cannot seem to get my soundcard either
> installed or correctly configured. Its a SoundMax Integrated Digital
> Audio card, built into my Asus motherboard.

How do you know this? The Windows Device Mangler lies like a rug when
it comes to sound cards, so the thing you should really be paying
attention to is the output from "lspci | grep audio".

> as some Intel card with AC'97 codec stuff. I was able to download
> linux drivers for the SoundMax from Asus' website, and compile and
> install the module. But I've pretty much hit a wall as far as getting
> it to configure and work.

Meaning? For PCI sound cards, you do "modprobe $MODULE" and sound
starts working. To find out what $MODULE is, you usually rely on the
information provided by lspci. F'rexample, if I do "lspci | grep
audio" on my desktop machine, I get:

0000:00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]

....so I do "modprobe es1371" and sound works. YMMV of course. You
might want to post the output of that lspci command. If you do that,
it's possible that someone will be able to tell you exactly what to do.

> I was able to install and configure drivers for my SATA controller
> card. And it works when I initially loaded the module. However, I
> cannot get RH to detect the device and load the module on startup.

Redhat and derived distros have a script that's always executed on boot.
It's /etc/rc.d/rc.local . Add the modprobe command you need to that
script, and the module will be loaded. If you want to mount the disks
on this controller, just put the appropriate mount command into rc.local
too. Quick, hackish, easy to do.

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Scratch the sound card problem, I got that fixed.

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Joseph

"Joseph Daigle" <jdaigle@cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message
news:cgm06v$n9d$1@news-int2.gatech.edu...
> Hey everyone, I'm fairly a newbie when it comes to linux. I'm currently
> working on a RH9 install. And I'm really only having 2 major problems.
>
> For whatever reason, I cannot seem to get my soundcard either installed or
> correctly configured. Its a SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio card, built
> into my Asus motherboard. RH9 initially dedected it as some Intel card
with
> AC'97 codec stuff. I was able to download linux drivers for the SoundMax
> from Asus' website, and compile and install the module. But I've pretty
much
> hit a wall as far as getting it to configure and work. If anyone could
help
> guide me though this that would be great.

ASUS Linux support is like asking your dog to help you with a chainsaw. They
want to help, but it's usually safer to keep them out of the way.

You probably want to update to Fedora Core 2 if you can for the updates in
the sound drivers and updated ALSA tools.

> The other issue I'm having is probably simpilar, I just don't know what to
> do. I was able to install and configure drivers for my SATA controller
card.
> And it works when I initially loaded the module. However, I cannot get RH
to
> detect the device and load the module on startup. Kudzu just tells me that
> it can't find a driver for it. Any help getting this to work correctly
would
> be appretiated as well.

See above. Also, to preload a driver at boot time, you can compile it into
the initrd-*.img file. Look into the "mkinitrd" command.