Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 114442
won't recognize or configure an SB AWE64 Gold card
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:00 EST
Description of problem: After a full install of RHEL3ES with "everything" (all packages), my SB AWE64 Gold ISA card is not recognized and configured with redhat-config-soundcard. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-soundcard-1.0.8-1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install RHEL3ES 2. run redhat-config-soundcard Actual results: soundcard not detected Expected results: soundcard detected and configured as it has been in every Red Hat release from 6.0 through 9. Additional info: Looking at the hardware compatibility page for RHEL3, it doesn't appear that *any* soundcard is supported! However, RHEL2.1 lists the SB AWE64 as certified compatible.
redhat-config-soundcard and RHEL 3 do not support ISA soundcards. The only suggestion that I could give you is to install the kernel-unsupported RPM from your RHEL 3 cd. That will install the kernel module for that soundcard. Then download the sndconfig RPM from RHL 9 at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/sndconfig-0.70-2.i386.rpm That should configure modules.conf for that driver. However, please be aware that this is offically unsupported.
Ah! So *that's* what Red Hat meant by "generally RHEL is a superset of RHL" in its RHEL3 migration whitepaper ("generally" can be such a corporate weasel-word). Well, since I'm now in the market for a PCI soundcard for my "Professional Workstation" (which is barely three years old), which ones *are* certified compatible with RHEL3? As I indicated above, your RHEL3 hardware compatibility page doesn't wax nostalgic at all, and it does seems incongruent of Red Hat to support a redhat-config-soundcard utility if no soundcards are supported at all.