[GLLUG] MDK 9.1 Sound problems.

[troettger at comcast.net]

Hello all, I am somewhat new to the list and have a question for you all.  I 
just installed MDK 9.1 on my laptop, new install new partitions.  And I am 
having sound problem.  Nothing new, I ran MDK 9.0 through the beta's and had 
problems with every build, which I could get around and fix myself until 9.1 by 
just correcting the modules config file.  Its an older laptop, a Gateway 2150, 
600mhz, the sound card is detected as es1371. From previous experience I knew I 
needed to use the es1371 driver, the other driver was the snd-ens1371.  I 
choose this driver when asked in the install but when I first booted the laptop 
The soundcard wasn't working and it was loading the snd-ens1371 driver.

I believe the snd-ens1371 is an ALSA Driver and the es1371 is a OSS driver.  I 
checked the .conf file and fixed what normally fixed it before and it didn't 
work this time.  To get my sound to work I have to rmmod kill the pid for kmix 
(when using kde) then rmmod all the snd drivers I can then run draksound and 
choose the correct driver and it will restart the sound server and work 
normally (but if I don't rmmod the drivers it won't work at all. 

>From What I am guessing MDK built the wrong drivers into the kernel so I think 
I am gonna have to recompile the kernel.  Any thoughts on how or why MDK would 
do this?  Any quick fixes?  I haven't recompiled a kernel yet so I am a bit 
leary, though it is a new install and won't kill much if I screw it up. 

On an interesting side note, any version of Red Hat perfectly detects and 
configures my card without problem.  

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Tim Roettger