Thanks SigmaX it is working now.
A little strange though, when I installed a few days ago, there was a message saying to use sndconfig. I tried under root but it would not be found.
Since then, I had replaced the NIC with a couple different ones until I found one that would finally be detected. Wonder if that had anything to do with sndconfig also not working?
No, nothin to do with NIC's. sndconfig was an old tool for detectin an conf'g (_only_) ISA sound cards. Since most systems don't even have ISA slot(s) anymore, and the fact that probing ISA with sndconfig often caused lockups**, it was dropped.
OTOH, it's still available, this is from current 10.2 (.... errr.. I mean 2005 Limited Edition by Daffy Duck ;)
tom # urpmi -y sndconfig
To satisfy dependencies, the following 4 packages are going to be installed (1 MB):
awesfx-0.5.0d-1mdk.i586
isapnptools-1.26-6mdk.i586
playmidi-2.5-4mdk.i586
sndconfig-0.70-7mdk.i586
** most old ISA sound cards were _real_ hardware, complete with onboard jumpers, at least for setting the IRQ. These always work, lockups during detection most likely won't happen. Plug'n Pray ISA cards (popular in ready made Windoze systems) OTOH will most likely be problematic. Try first with P'n P set to 'no' in bios. If that fails try turnin P'n P on. If that fails, go buy a cheap PCI sound card that works with ALSA ;)
IMO, the most bulletproof solution for Linux sound is AC97 codec compliant, integrated, 5.1 6-channel sound chip on the motherboard.
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