I am running intel based PC with Red Hat distrubution 5.1 on it (please
note that I did not install linux on the box). When I first started
useing it, it had no sound support and a generic sound card that did
work when it had Windows NT. After trying to configure the system to use
the sound card, I gave up and got a soundblaster 16 pnp card, hopeing
that would make things easier. After trying to get the sound card to
work with isapnp and haveing no luck, I am begining to question wether
the kernal was orginally compiled with sound support. I know the CD
player is working since I can listen to music directly, but I get
nothing from the sound card, and cannot play anything else such as wav
files, etc.. Is there a way to verify that my kernal has sound support
in it? If it did not have sound support configured, do I have to
recompile the kernal, or is there another way to get sound support? Also
if anyone knows a good way to verify that the card is being recognized
at all, that couldn't hurt.
thanks in advance,
rt
