I ( ) have redhat 9.0 on my omnibook 2100 but I can't get my sound card work correctly. It's a crystal cs4236.
I use sndconfig to install the driver, but always the following strange error occures:

If I restart my computer and login, I can't use the sound. Either there is no sound or the first time I try to use sound the speakers begin to tick.
But if I run sndconfig directly after login und configure the soundcard again, I can use my sound card for the rest of the session.

What can I do now? I don't want to reconfigure the souncard every restart.

is sndconfig loading modules into the kernel? I'm not sure how sndconfig works myself as I've never used it but type as root
lsmod
then use sndconfig
and afterword
type lsmod
has the listing changed after using sndconfig? If it has then there are modules that you will need to load at startup.

thank you for your quick reply. You are right, two entries have changed:

Module .... Size .... Used .... by
cs4232 .... 5444 ..... 0 .......
sound ..... 74228 .... 0 ....... [cs4232 ad1848 uart401]
----->
cs4232 .... 5444 ..... 1 .......
sound ..... 74228 .... 1 ....... [opl3 cs4232 uart401 ad1848]

What does that mean? What do I have to do now?

ok well first let's make sure we know how to do this by hand... if (after rebooting so that sound isn't working) you execute '/sbin/modprobe cs4232' does it give you any errors? And does modprobing cs4232 automagically load the sound module as well?

you may have to execute
/sbin/modprobe sound
(and then)
/sbin/modprobe cs4232

after you figure out what commands you give then you add these 1 or 2 commands to your init scripts.

Look in /etc/rc.d/init.d (if you have a redhat system or a system with sys v init scripts). is there a file / script called 'local'? this is the script where you make personalized changes to your linux system... like the loading of these sound modules.

then when you reboot the system at startup will execute those 'modprobe' commands for you and your sound will be working as soon as you login.

well... I did everything you said, but I've still the same problem.
I tried to do it by hand, and I didn't work. (I tried to put the commands into /etc/rc.d/rc.local but of course it didn't work too).

If I execute the commands, you told me, and after this use 'lsmod',
the entries will have change correctly, but I can't hear any sound until I've reconfigured with sndconfig

ok lets do this the easy way... ( I dont know why I didn't tell you to do this the first time)...
add the 'sndconfig' command to your rc.d scripts. you'll want to read up on it a bit more but in /etc/rc.d/init.d/local put a line that executes sndconfig.

if the 'local' script does not exist and you had to create it you will have to make sure it gets executed at boot time.

Just to add to this. Maybe you should do 'dmesg' before and after your sound card has been detected. The kernel messages may give clue on what went wrong.

You may need to edit /etc/module.conf for additional module that need to be loaded for your sound card.

Good Luck!

@ jpbarto : add sndconfig to the scipt doesn't work too.

@ ghostdancer: I did 'dmesg' before an after I'd run 'sndconfig' and this has changed (the last three lines):

before:
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
SB 3.02 detected OK (220)
SB: Can't allocate IRQ5

after:
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
SB 3.02 detected OK (220)
SB: Can't allocate IRQ5
cs4232: set synthio and synthirq to use the wavefront facilities.
cs4232: set synthio and synthirq to use the wavefront facilities.
YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996

What does that mean: "SB: Can't allocate IRQ5"? In BIOS I allocate IRQ5 for sound.
And what can I do now?