ISA sound cards no longer supported

Styma, Robert E (Robert) stymar at alcatel-lucent.com
Fri May 4 15:22:07 UTC 2007


 > If you are using FC6 or FC7 and have problems with sound your problem
> may be due to the developers removing support for legacy ISA sound
> cards. The driver for the card will no longer be automatically loaded.
>  I discovered this after filing this bug report,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234021 .
> 
> If ALSA still supports your card all is not lost. The fix is to
> manually tell the kernel to load the driver. In my case I edited
> /etc/rc.local and appended the following two lines:
> 
> modprobe -r snd-sbawe
> modprobe snd-sbawe
> 
> Change snd-sbawe to whatever is appropriate for your system.

This is another reason to tar away a copy of /etc before you
upgrade your system.  You can later go back and dig around
in the old /etc/modprobe.conf to find some of these names.

Bob Styma
Phoenix, AZ




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