Sound card

[Mark Knecht]

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From: Scott Mertens <smertens at mho.com>
Date: Apr 11, 2005 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: Sound card
To: Red Hat Install <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>


>Hi Scott,
>   The standard for Linux sound these days is Alsa. I'm not exactly
>sure what Gnome is attempting to do for you but it's probably not
>going to get the job done. Let's jsut go back to basics and get it
>handled.

>   Probably the most simple way to approach the problem is to let Alsa
>set it up for you. Try running alsaconf and see if it finds the card.
>If it does it will liekly set up modprobe.conf and you'll be almost
>ready to go. At that point you can try /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound
>start and see what happens.

I can find no man pages for this command (alsaconf) and can't figure
out how to run.  Can you be more specific for me?

Assuming that Alsa is part of this distro then, as root, 

alsaconf

-Mark