cannot detect audiophile 2496 using redhat 9
 

Hello. I am a newbie. I installed redhat 8 and just installed redhat 9 in the hope it would help. I have an SIS sound card that came with my Sony Vaio and a PCI audiophile 2496. I downloaded the Alsa driver but honestly, I need to start from gound zero. soundconfig only recognizes the SIS card. My distro is 2.4.20-8. And lspci is:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 730 Host (rev 02)
00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller
(rev 07)
00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Au
dio Accelerator (rev 02)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI
bridge (AGP)
00:0d.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics Venus Modem (V90, 56KF
lex)
00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: IC Ensemble Inc ICE1712 [Envy24] (rev 02)
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139
C+ (rev 10)
00:10.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem
00:13.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (
Link)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS630 GUI A
ccelerator+3D (rev 31)

I see it in there but don't know where to begin. Please help. I am getting close to giving in and going back to Windows.

Thanks.

don't have a lot of time, but hope this helps.
i've never had my card autodetected by any distro (i have an audiophile as well). You'll probably have to play around w/ your alsa config files. You need to be using the ice1712 chipset (check the alsa web site for details on installing it, it shouldn't be hard) maybe even try a modprobe ice1712 and see what happens=). assuming that works, use envy24control (in alsa-tools?) as a mixer. good luck!