System Architecture: Intel
RedHat Release: RHL 5.1 (Manhattan)
FAQ Category: Sound and Music
Modification Date: Oct 19, 1998
How do I setup sound on RedHat 5.x?
Thanks to the excellent work done by Alan Cox, RedHat 5.x comes with a modular sound driver for several cards including the soundblaster series. Sound may be setup using several methods: sndconfig (RTFM man page) a shell script OSS sound drivers An example of setting up sound via a script is: #!/bin/bash #/sbin/insmod sb io=0x240 irq=9 dma=3 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x300 OSS sound drivers may be obtained from http:/www.opensound.com and are commercial drivers for Linux and other flavors of UNIX. These are easy to setup and stable, but are commercial (hence $). For more difficult setups, OSS may be your best bet (e.g., a system with a lot of hardware, or multiple sound cards). WARNING: If you don't get the I/O, IRQ, and DMA setup at the proper addresses, your system may not operate properly or may have stability problems. Note, Linux will support multiple sound cards (but unless they are jumpered cards, they will probably have to be different model cards, e.g., one Soundblaster, one Gravis).
http://www.opensound.com