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How do install a sound card in RedHat 9.0???

I can't seem to figure out how to configure my sound card in RedHait linux. I'm totally new to linux so please feel free to speak to me in idiot language.

I have a sound blaster 4.1 digital sound card which worked fine under windows but im getting nothing from linux, is there anything i can do to remedy this?

Thanks in advance.

Aschneider00

go to the system settings folder from the "RH" menu... then soundcard detection... see if it sees the card and try to play the test sound.... if that works you may have to go to preferences and enable sound server on startup.

roblablob

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thats what I initially tried but all it would detect was my onboard AC97 sound and something else I'd never heard of, and the test sounds wouldn't work. So then I tried installing this oss sound package thing and it did nothing and now I can't run the automatic sound card detection anymore!!! how annoying!!!

Aschneider00

ddi u disable ur onboard sound in the bios?? That would cause the confusion. RH said rather than installing 2 sound cards it didnt install any.

Check it out. If it was disabled it wouldnt detect it.

roblablob

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no i haven't disabled my onboard sound, I went and checked just to make sure. But my immediate problem is that my RH soundcard detection wont function at the moment. Is there another way of configuring my sound??

roblablob

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I have seen elsewhere that you have to do something with your kernel, is this true? I'm completely new to all this so how do i go about it?

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Aschneider00

just make sure the onboard sound is disabled in the BIOS b4 any of the above.... =)