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

[Stephen Connor]

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 20:32, Sandra Milne wrote:
> 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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Thanks for the help I just needed to add the alias to /etc/modules.conf.
It begs the question though why Red Hat 8.0 doesn't do this when it
installs.

Stephen Connor


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