Re: Sound problem with RedHat 8.0

Djurdjura H. ([email protected]) said: 
> In summary: I have no sound under RedHat 8.0.
> 
> I have a Soundblaster 16 PCI installed (actually, I thought that the 
> previous sound card I had was too cheap and this was why it did not work 
> under RedHat8.0, so I bought this one 2 days ago, with no more luck).
> 
> This card works just fine under WinXP. But under RedHat8.0 no sound at 
> all. I usually use Gnome as my window manager.
> 
> When I run sndconfig, I first get the following auto-detected sound card:
>     Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI es1371
> 
> When I try to manually use the Sounblaster 16 driver under sndconfig, I 
> get the following problem (frankly, I don't understand most of the 
> fields to fill in!):
> 
> modprobe errror
> 
> The following error occurred running the modprobe program:
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-27.8.0/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o: init_module: No 
> such device
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-27.8.0/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-27.8.0/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-27.8.0/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o: insmod
> sound-slot-0 failed
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help,

Don't use the 'sb' driver, use the 'es1371' driver.

Bill