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It's been a few months since I've had a computer with Linux on it... any way, I just built a system with onboard AC'97 sound. How do I configure Red Hat to recgonize it? I know this is a really dumb question, but I thought I'd try here first.
Well... I downloaded the ALSA stuff, and I cannot get ./alsaconf to recgonize my onboard sound. I also try ./configure and that seems to go fine, but when I try make install all I get is errors.
In the KDE system information under PCI this is what comes up for my onboard sound:
00:1F.5 Multimedia Audio Controller Intel Corp. 82801EB Ac'97 Audio (rev 02)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Unknown device 1000
Flags: Bus master, medium devsel, latency, 0, IRQ 17
I/O Ports at b400 [size=256]
I/o Ports at b800 [size=64]
Memory at fa101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at fa102000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities [50] Power Management Version 2
If the system recgonizes it, why won't ALSA? Is there something else I can try besides ALSA?
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