To listen to sounds, I first need to modprobe sb to load the sound blaster module. That worked fine, until I installed lame. Now, when I modprobe sb, I get an error stating init_module: no such device... insmod sb failed. I can attach the exact message if it helps.

I'm using Red Hat 9, and I installed lame.3.93.1.

The kernel startup log shows the OS still sees the sound card as isapnp: Card CS4236B Audio.

Does anyone have a suggestion (short of reinstalling RH9) on what I can try to fix this?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Never mind. I got ALSA to work... thanks to information found at the following link: http://www.levien.com/tp600.html.

That link is no longer good. Got another?

The page is actually there... the link in my post grabbed the trailing period.

Try
http://www.levien.com/tp600.html

without the '.' after html. Sorry for the typo.

lame has nothing to do with your kernel sound driver problems at all.

Though, you didn't tell where you've got lame 3.93.1 from or what you've done to install it. A prebuilt package like offered by Fedora ( http://www.fedora.us ) does not affect your sound driver.