Re: Greetings!

[ktb <xyf@inebraska.com>]

Andre Dreyer wrote:
> 
> Greetings
> 
> I am new to this list and hope to be here for a long time.  Just to
> introduce myself, I am 20 y/o male from South Africa.  I am mainly a
> Visual Basic programmer (Hold your tounges before commenting on MS).  I
> played around a while back with Phat Linux but lost it with a hd crash.
> I now am running Storm Linux 2000 and I must say it was quite a
> exilirating experience installing  linux on it's own partition (seeing
> as Phat runs on a dos partition).  I am a bit fed up with MS as I feel
> strongly about learning from each other rather then trying to bully
> everyone to get to #1 as that to me is not the meaning of life.
> 
> Well to get down to business, I really need a helping hand with Sound
> card installation.  I have a Ess Es1869 Audiodrive card.  I have
> allready done a pnpdump and edited the /etc/isapnp.conf file accordingly
> (as far as I know it's correct).  The sound card still does not want to
> work and the IRQ's isn't causing any errors.  I have a feeling I still
> need to install some drivers.  If anyone has some suggestions about what
> could be wrong and possibly tell me where I could find the drivers to
> install I would appretiate it immensely.

If your sound card is supported you will have to recompile the kernel
and select it there.
hth,
kent