Hey,
About two weeks ago, I finally got fed up with the slowness, constant crashing, and inefficiency of Windows, So I decided to go linux. good choice, I know. Anyway, I first chose Slackware, but that wasn't compatable with most of the programs I use for recording with my band. So, I switched to Fedora 7, which worked great. I got it up an running with the GNOME X-Window System. Here's My Specs:

Computer Brand: Custom Built
Motherboard: A-Open
BIOS: A-Open
Ram: 217.6 MB (That may be inaccurate)
Processor: Intel Pentium Celeron
Main Hard Disk: 40GB in all (3 partitions)

So my problem is that once I started up the system for the first time after installing Fedora, My sound did not work at all. I have a Creative Sound Blaster 16 PCI Sound Card, and it worked on the exact same computer when it was running Windhoes . I only got the sound card to work out of complete chance, when I woke the computer up, to work on the sound card, the sound test suddenly worked. The bad news that was once I restarted it, it no longer worked.

I've heard and experimented with the NDISWrapper Program used to convert Windows Network Adapter Drivers into Linux-Compatable drivers, and I was hoping that there was a similar program for Sound Cards. I do have the original Sound Blaster 16 CD, containing the Windows drivers and extra software (which is really crappy).\

I would seriously appreciate any help, as I am lost, and I'll really need my sound card working so that my band can record.

I see that about an hour after you posted this that you posted (in response to mickeyboa) that you found a fix to the problem...

So, did you find a fix or would you still like assistance?

Well, the fix that I found was only temporary. It involves configuring the sound card settings every time you start up. Although I did adapt quite well to Linux, I'm still not a guru and therefore not quite sure why I have to configure it each time. I'm assuming you've already read the post I put up, so in the 3rd tab to the left in the SoundCard settings, I even tried pressing "rewrite log file" or whatever and "rewrite config file" buttons, but to no avail.

So, to make a long story short, yes, if you have any help you can offer, I would love it. It beats having to reconfigure every time I start up. And sound is kind of an important part of my everyday life, being a music artist and in a band.

Thanks a million
~~Collin F. Mackey (ShockStudios Inc.)

Have you ever added any other USB sound devices like a Webcam or Headset?

If so then read this thread carefully. They had the same symptoms and found it to be caused by their other USB sound devices: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archiv.../t-135300.html

If not then you can tell your computer to reload your drivers automatically each time you reboot by adding these two lines to your etc/rc.local file:

modprobe -r snd-sbawe
modprobe snd-sbawe

Replace "snd-sbawe" with the appropriate module for your system. For example, on my laptop I would add snd-hda-intel instead of snd-sbawe. If you are not sure what yours should be then look at your etc/modprobe.conf file. After adding those two lines, your rc.local file should look similar to this but with your snd- information:

********************************************************************
$ cat /etc/rc.local
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
modprobe -r snd-sbawe
modprobe snd-sbawe
********************************************************************

That should do the trick,

Take care,

Jay