[Wolves] soundcard

[Wayne Morris]

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 21:10, Adam Sweet wrote:
> Various snips...
> 
> > I have this and it works fine with SuSE 8.2/9.0 
> > which uses alsa, (which maybe 
> > why RH9 works OK).
> 
> I have this card too and couldn't get it to work with
> any distros that I tried, Mandrake 9.1, Debian Woody
> and Knoppix, all produced the insmod error you gave.
> Installed Mandrake 9.2 today and it works fine with
> the odd fizzing noise ;)
> 
> To be honest don't know why. Would building your own
> kernel help given that they are module errors? That
> might be a complete red herring though.
> 
> Sorry,
> 
> Ad
>From some googling the consensus seems to be that RH8 kernel didn't support the card, you may compile a custom
made kernel to get it supported.
Or something called ALSA make work.

Damn, I was quite happy with having no sound on my laptop untill this thread, but now I feel obliged to get it 
working - its a SIS7012 on RH 9

Wayne