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hey all! I was recentally playing around with my newley built computer and decided to partition the drive. I did that, Installed Redhat 7.0, and got LILO all set up so I could boot back into ME if I needed to. I logged in, ran sndconfig, and it detected the card. It then said that it had a (insert odd name here) chipset, and that it wasn't supported. It works well in windows, and it can be recognized in DOS as a sound blaster or compatible. Any way I could tweak linux so it thinks it is a soundblaster?
This is sad, cauz I liked linux redhat! I allready have to compile scource to get my ethernet card working. I have used redhat 7.0 before, so I kinda know what I am doing.
The most important information was actually what you lfet out. If you could post (insert odd name here) of the chipset, then there's probably been a driver created for it in the year since 7.0 came out.
sorry bout that.. I didn't have a pen handy so I could write it down.. It says it detects an Ensoniq15880 AudioPCI. Then it goes to the next screen where it says that this card is not supported.
Sorry dude, you have to realise most of the people who poke around here do it from work on the weekdays... okay, not most, just me really.
The Ensoniq 15880 doesn't exist as far as I can tell, but the 5800 does... so I'm thinking RedHat's sound utils just stuffed up its output. The modules for the 5880 is oddly enough the same as nearly every other Ensoniq chipset, the es1371. To see if I've got this right, try:
modprobe es1371
The command line should blink for a second, and then return nothing, which means it accepted the module. You can check to see if it bound to the hardware right with:
dmesg
This is the kernel's log of recognizing all of the hardware. Its chronological, so the most recent addition will be at the bottom.
Oh, if upon modprobe es1371 spits back a bunch of 'unresolved symbol' garbage, you may need to insmod soundcore first, with:
modprobe soundcore
Then try modprobing es1371. I can't remember if RH 7.1 had soundcore built into the kernel, or if you had to pop that in on your own.
If sound works after this, then just post back and I can help you with how to make everything work automagically from boot. If es1371 doesn't go in... post the output from:
cat /proc/pci
So we can figure out if you either need to a) grab an updated version of the module and compile it like you did for the NIC, or b) we even have to find a different module entirely. I'm pretty certain es1371 is the right one.
I forgot what file it is in /etc/ that RH uses to load modules. Its been a while since i had to do that in RH due to how good kudzo usually is. Wiggy.
A rather hackish way is to stick the line:
/sbin/modprobe es1371
at the end of a file called /etc/rc.d/rc.local
rc.local is the very last init script run on the boot sequence, so regardless of everything else, that should do it.
Anyway, if no one else posts the Red Hat way by the time I get home, I'll have it up.
As far as the compiler tools... there should be a package handler installed if you want to do it through X+Gnome. RH uses RPMs, RedHat Package manager (their bid to control the universe). Actually, RPMs work really well, I'm just a cynic.
If you want to do it from the command line, just mount the CD, almost definately the first one, and look in the RPMS directory. I suspect you probably only need gcc, and maybe bison or yacc... also, you may not need to compile a module for the NIC, you didn't for the sound card, what kind is it offhand?
I could hardly ever get anything to work right with the compiler provided with RH7.0.
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Sound Blaster PCI128 issues. PLEASE HELP!!
This is sad, cauz I liked linux redhat! I allready have to compile scource to get my ethernet card working. I have used redhat 7.0 before, so I kinda know what I am doing.
