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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:45:28 -0400, Joseph Daigle staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> Hey everyone, I'm fairly a newbie when it comes to linux. I'm
> currently working on a RH9 install.

Why something so old?

> For whatever reason, I cannot seem to get my soundcard either
> installed or correctly configured. Its a SoundMax Integrated Digital
> Audio card, built into my Asus motherboard.

How do you know this?  The Windows Device Mangler lies like a rug when
it comes to sound cards, so the thing you should really be paying
attention to is the output from "lspci | grep audio".

> as some Intel card with AC'97 codec stuff. I was able to download
> linux drivers for the SoundMax from Asus' website, and compile and
> install the module. But I've pretty much hit a wall as far as getting
> it to configure and work.

Meaning?  For PCI sound cards, you do "modprobe $MODULE" and sound
starts working.  To find out what $MODULE is, you usually rely on the
information provided by lspci.  F'rexample, if I do "lspci | grep
audio" on my desktop machine, I get:

0000:00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]

...so I do "modprobe es1371" and sound works.  YMMV of course.  You
might want to post the output of that lspci command.  If you do that,
it's possible that someone will be able to tell you exactly what to do.

> I was able to install and configure drivers for my SATA controller
> card.  And it works when I initially loaded the module. However, I
> cannot get RH to detect the device and load the module on startup.

Redhat and derived distros have a script that's always executed on boot.
It's /etc/rc.d/rc.local .  Add the modprobe command you need to that
script, and the module will be loaded.  If you want to mount the disks
on this controller, just put the appropriate mount command into rc.local
too.  Quick, hackish, easy to do.

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