[H-GEN] Sound driver problem in Red Hat 8.0

[Sandra Milne]

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On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:15, Stephen Connor shared the following ideas:
> I have recently installed Red Hat 8.0. When I did the install it picked
> up my onboard sound card. However when I look at the sound card
> detection tool it tells me that the module is disabled. Having never had
> any problems with drivers in Linux before I don't know how to enable
> driver module. My sound card is a C-Media Electronics Inc, model CM8738
> and is onboard an ASUS P4B533 motherboard.

first I would try:

modprobe cmpci

If you get no errors, it's probably loaded ok. Then you'd want to add it to 
the file /etc/modules (I'm assuming this is the file to use under RedHat, if 
not I'm sure somebody will correct me.)

You may also find the following url useful:
http://www.linuxtested.com/results/Asus_P4B533.html

Sandra.
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