hello everyone,

i was having trouble getting some sound out of my soundcard. hence i was just browsing thru some threads in this page, but found an overwhelming set of information; finally i was lost.

the thing is, now i want to understand what are the steps to intall the card and what every step in the installation process means. so, is someone aware of any good documentation elaborating the steps in installing a soundcard and explaining what each of it means?

thanks !!
rpb

It doesn't hurt to mention the type of soundcard you're having problems with (we're not psychic ) Just about every soundcard should be autodetected, although the soundblaster live 5.1 cards neet the emu10k1 module added.

That means, at some point after you boot, you go to the command line and type:

modprobe emu10k1

All should be good after that, but that is a typical example. Things seem more difficult with Linux, but it is more illusion than reality.

Oh, and RH9 is a couple years old now. You might save yourself quite a bit of suffering if you tried a newer version of Linux, either fedora (redhat's decendant), or another distribution, but something that has come out in the last year or more recently.