Sound card pain and suffering...

[Cameron Tully-Smith]

Hi...

I'm trying to get a SoundBlaster/Ensoniq (Creative Labs) AudioPCI card 
(recognized as an ES1371, though it says "1274:5880 (rev 02)" when I run 
lspci -n) working on my Red Hat 6.2 system.  So far, sndconfig recognizes 
the card (it says "Model: Ensoniq|CT5880") but I don't hear the sound 
sample that it tries to play.  I'm using whatever RH 6.2 includes by 
default.  Originally, motherboard sound (AC97 compatible) was enabled by 
accident, though I believe it's disabled now since, after I set up the CMOS 
setup to get rid of the motherboard sound, kudzu came up and asked if I 
wanted to remove the drivers and I said yes.

Has anyone else had any experience (good or bad) with this card?  Has 
anyone tried the ALSA drivers (especially with this card)?  I'd be happy to 
try the ALSA drivers if I know someone else has gotten them to 
work...  otherwise, I'd rather not spend the time to do all the stuff in 
the mini-howto for it.  In terms of sound capabilities, I'd like to use the 
soundcard for games and maybe the occasional CD playing...  I don't have 
MIDI devices to control directly and don't care about playing MIDI files in 
general.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cameron
lpstudy at sonic.net