I searched the forums but I could not find the exact answer I needed. I have a Compaq Presario 5020 with 128 MB of RAM and a ~300 MHz Celeron, and a 40 GB hard drive with a 20GB partition for Linux and 20 unused right now.

Anyways, I am having some hardware detection issues with Redhat. After I removed my Winmodem and installed a REAL modem, it still did not auto detect it until I told it the /dev location of the modem (after the modem driver installation told me.) After that, everything worked fine and I can browse the internet.

But now, I cannot get the sound card auto detected. What is odd is that the terminal emulator will beep out of the right speaker, but if I try to open up the volume control or sound card detection, it says that it cannot detect a sound card. What is even worse, I have no clue as to what brand of sound card I have. I looked through Google and my PC's manual and did not find anything.

Is there some way (such as a utililty or something) to make it find the card?
OR
Is there a good, smaller distro that is more modern in terms of hardware (new or old) detection yet able to run on my outdated machine? I don't want anything that takes up 4 CD's. I use Redhat mostly for programming assignments.

I am planning on getting a new PC, since mine is beyond upgradability, when I get the money but 'til then I would like to be able to listen to my CD's and .mpg files.

Thank you.

Oh yeah I forgot to post this output required for all hardware issue posts:
sbin/lspci output

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem (rev 02)
00:14.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:14.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:14.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133 (rev dc)

sorry