I have two computers. Ones a generic with 3 pci and 3 isa slots, its a P233. The other is a Dell dimension with a PII 450 with win2k sp2. I had RH 7.3 on the Generic when i thought it would be better to put it on the Dell so i switched hard drives.

I also have two sound cards. One is a Vortex 1(turtle beach) pci and the other is a Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA. Before the switch, RH picked up the SB card and i didnt' need to do a thing. It worked perfect. When i switched computers i managed to get some help and it told me that RH does't support the Vortex chipset on my sound card. So i downloaded the module for the sound card. And setting this thing up for a newbie is frustrating to an extreme degree. The drivers had and extention .tar.gz and one was .tar.bz2. (I know the deal with no extentions in linux but confusing none the less). The read me file told me what to do and when i upacked it i got nothing but errors.

To make a long story short, i tried moving the SB card to the other pc because it recognized it before. Now i have to go into sndconfig to prob for the SB card and at the end it gives me "modprobe" errors. It says that, and lists the directory, sb.o init_module: No such Device.

The there is a list that is similar like
sb.o :insmod
sb.o :failed
sb.o :insmod
sb.o :sound-slot-0 failed

Is this my board failing? I know the ps2 port kaked. the card is in right. Anyone?

The SB sound card, what's the actual chipset on that?

lspci -vv

should give better info so as to make sure that sb.o is the right module. Also, is that an old ISA card? If so it may take a lot of arguments to insmod it right, DMA channels, IRQs, sndconfig is only reliable with PCI cards, with ISA, it just sucks.

Also, with the turtle beach card, I swear I've seen that in menuconfig for OSS sound card modules when I compile kernels. Whatever RedHat says, or doesn't say, may be totally pants, they just put together the end product, the kernel is an entirely different matter. Again, what does lspci -vv say? feed that back into google.com/linux and it'll probably turn up the name of the kernel module. Or, just go poking around /lib/modules/2.4.18-???/kernel/drivers/sound, and try modprobe'ing whatever looks nifty.

Luck,

Finegan

I went poking around in /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/sound, and when i modprobe the sb.o it says "Can't locate module"...but when i ls't the contents of the directory i see it right there.

It is an old PnP ISA, i switched slots ealier today and it picked it up on bootup, but still gave me the same problems. It says it will playback a sample and then coughs up those errors.

modprobe is built to load the module by name without the ".o" extension, yeah its silly. Offhand I found a page that deals with these old ISA SB cards, but I'm pretty sure that turtle beach card will work too:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...aster-AWE.html

Luck,

Finegan

Ok, so i got modprobe to work but when i try a lot of the drivers i get nothing. Most of the drivers in that folder .../kernel/drivers/sound/ return me the same message that i first inserted here but without the gui, just in bash.

Although there was one time, i tried 'modprobe awe_midi' and i got this crash type crackly sound, so again i tried the modprobing sb and the same message again. Then i tried modprobing awe_midi again and got no sound, im assuming maybe because i already loaded it but i don't really know.

Is there a distro that makes any of this easier? Or at least more understandable? Is there any particular reason why this ISA pnp card worked under the same distro(in fact the exact distro, i swapped the hdd) and not on my other computer?

Oh and thank you much for all your help up to here! Much abbliged!