I have dual booting with RHEL5.2 and Windows XP on my system.
My problem is that it is not detecting my PCI-Audio card "Enter E-4CS" with "creative ev1938" chipset. The same is working properly in windows.

If any idea to solve my problem ...

Do the following to know whether the modules is loaded:



If not try loading the alsa driver manually :

I got the output of the commands as like this

#lsmod | grep snd
snd_ens1371 28513 1
snd_au8830 50549 0
snd_seq_dummy 7877 0
snd_intel8x0m 20685 0
snd_ac97_codec 93025 3 snd_ens1371,snd_au8830,snd_intel8x0m
ac97_bus 6337 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_oss 32577 0
snd_seq_midi_event 11073 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 49585 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 42945 0
snd_mixer_oss 19009 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 72005 5 snd_ens1371,snd_au8830,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
gameport 18633 4 snd_ens1371,snd_au8830,ns558
snd_mpu401 12265 0
snd_mpu401_uart 12097 2 snd_au8830,snd_mpu401
snd_rawmidi 26561 2 snd_ens1371,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 11725 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer 24517 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 52421 16 snd_ens1371,snd_au8830,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,sn d_pcm,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_timer
soundcore 11553 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14281 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm



#cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [AudioPCI ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xc000, irq 12
1 [UART ]: MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART
MPU-401 UART at 0x300, irq 10

Anybody have an idea to install proper drive for my sound card on linux
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Looks like your soundcard is detected. It may be a problem with ALSA or OSS.

Can't you see your card in the sound settings ?

Read this guide: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...1-1062281.html
(You shouldn't need to install ALSA if you're sure that latest ALSA is installed)

I tried to compile ALSA driver but i was stuck with Error

# lspci|grep audio
01:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs Ectiva EV1938
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
# tar -jxvf alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
# cd alsa-driver-1.0.21

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ./configure --with-isapnp=no --with-sequencer=yes --with-oss=no --with-cards=ALL
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
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.
.
.
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating version
config.status: creating Makefile.conf
config.status: WARNING: Makefile.conf.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
config.status: creating snddevices
config.status: creating utils/alsa-driver.spec
config.status: creating utils/buildrpm
config.status: creating toplevel.config
config.status: creating utils/alsasound
config.status: creating utils/alsasound.posix
config.status: creating include/pci_ids_compat.h
config.status: creating include/i2c-id_compat.h
config.status: creating include/config.h
config.status: creating include/config1.h
config.status: creating include/version.h
config.status: include/version.h is unchanged
config.status: creating include/autoconf-extra.h
Hacking autoconf.h...


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# make
if [ ! -d include/sound -a ! -L include/sound ]; then \
ln -sf ../alsa-kernel/include include/sound ; \
fi
cp -puvf include/version.h include/sound/version.h
`include/version.h' -> `include/sound/version.h'
make dep
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21'
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/acore'
copying file alsa-kernel/core/info.c
patching file info.c
copying file alsa-kernel/core/pcm.c
patching file pcm.c
Hunk #2 succeeded at 923 (offset 13 lines).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 951 (offset 13 lines).
Hunk #5 succeeded at 993 (offset 1 line).
copying file alsa-kernel/core/pcm_native.c
patching file pcm_native.c
copying file alsa-kernel/core/control.c
patching file control.c
.
.
.
.
.
.
patching file device.c
Hunk #2 succeeded at 132 (offset 11 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 383 with fuzz 1 (offset 12 lines).
copying file alsa-kernel/usb/caiaq/input.c
patching file input.c
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/usb/caiaq'
make[3]: Entering directory `/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/usb/usx2y'
copying file alsa-kernel/usb/usx2y/usX2Yhwdep.c
patching file usX2Yhwdep.c
Hunk #2 succeeded at 48 with fuzz 2 (offset -3 lines).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 152 (offset -3 lines).
Hunk #5 succeeded at 194 (offset -10 lines).
Hunk #6 succeeded at 257 (offset -3 lines).
Hunk #7 succeeded at 303 (offset -11 lines).
copying file alsa-kernel/usb/usx2y/usbusx2y.c
patching file usbusx2y.c
Hunk #8 succeeded at 416 (offset -1 lines).
Hunk #9 succeeded at 443 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #10 succeeded at 462 (offset -1 lines).
Hunk #11 succeeded at 525 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #12 succeeded at 543 (offset -1 lines).
copying file alsa-kernel/usb/usx2y/usbusx2yaudio.c
patching file usbusx2yaudio.c
Hunk #3 succeeded at 316 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #5 succeeded at 365 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #7 succeeded at 407 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #9 succeeded at 547 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #11 succeeded at 1060 (offset 2 lines).
copying file alsa-kernel/usb/usx2y/usx2yhwdeppcm.c
patching file usx2yhwdeppcm.c
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/usb/usx2y'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/usb'
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/pcmcia'
make[3]: Entering directory `/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/pcmcia/pdaudiocf'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/pcmcia/pdaudiocf'
make[3]: Entering directory `/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/pcmcia/vx'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/pcmcia/vx'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/pcmcia'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/source SUBDIRS=/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21 CPP="gcc -E" CC="gcc" modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.el5-i686'
CC [M] /root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/acore/wrappers.o
CC [M] /root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/acore/misc_driver.o
In file included from /root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/acore/misc_driver.c:2:
/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/include/adriver.h:1786: error: redefinition of typedef ‘bool’
include/linux/types.h:36: error: previous declaration of ‘bool’ was here
make[3]: *** [/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/acore/misc_driver.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21/acore] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/root/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.21] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.el5-i686'
make: *** [compile] Error 2

Use the kernel module ... Use menuconfig and add your sound card as a module in the kernel. Its alot better then trying to manually install alsa from source.

How can I compile the kernel using the menuconfig...