SB AWE 64 card not detected

[Robert]

Paul Murtaugh wrote:
> I just upgraded from RH9 to FC2, and my Creative Sound Blaster
> AWE64 is not being detected.  (When I run system-config-soundcard,
> I get 'No soundcards were detected'.)  Nor does the hardware
> browser find a soundcard.
> 
>>From 'dmesg':
> 
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> pnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
> pnp: AWE32 quirk - adding two ports
> isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE64  PnP'
> isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions about what I might try?  Would the
> problems likely go away if I just get a new soundcard? (This
> card is 5 or 6 years old, I think.)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
I fought this battle several months ago on another machine and was 
amazed that FC could NEVER find the soundcard but KNOPPIX ALWAYS found 
it. I can't remember who put me on the trail but I wound up rebuilding 
the alsa-utils package so that alsaconf does not get removed after it's 
compiled. That chore outta the way, running /sbin/alsaconf takes care of 
  the heavy lifting and there is sound.
As previously suggested, a modern sound care would be better but I just 
HATE to throw stuff away when it still works.