cs4235 (6?) won't work

[peeps_59]

On advice from this board I took a Vibra16 back out of my computer (I couldn't get it to work, either) and went back to built-in sound on my motherboard. The top of the chip says cs4235, however, pnpdump finds it as a cs4236. Whenever, I try to load the driver (the closest RedHat7.3 comes with is cs4232) I get a "no such device" error. Is there any way to get sound out of this device. I'm really getting frustrated. I have been building my own computers for 12 years now, and can generally get them to do what I want, but this is about to drive me crazy, being new to this OS. It's hard to fix a problem, when you can't even find your way around in the file system (ie, what files go where). Can ANYBODY help me?????

Thanks for letting me vent . . .

[Timothy L. Miller]

Do you have module snd-card-cs4236.o? That's supposed to work for 4235/4236/4236b/4237b/4238b/4239. That's the best I could tell you, I've never used it...

[peeps_59]

That's an ALSA driver. I'm trying to do this without ALSA, because when I tried to compile it today (Release Candidate 3) it had so many errors, I didn't know where to start asking questions. I'm trying to do this with "Plain Jane Linux OSS". Anybody else? Or, does anyone want to walk me through all of the errors in ALSA (if thats a 'release candidate' then I'm a Martian!).

[Timothy L. Miller]

Post your errors here and I'm sure you'll get some help. I'm not terribly familiar with such, but I might be able to help some.

[peeps_59]

OK Mr. Miller. We'll go the ALSA route. I downloaded RC3. Un-archived them to respective directories. Then in Konsole, I went to the 'driver' directory and did a ./configure. Everything seemed to go OK. But during the 'make install' I get the following :

see attached file.

I am continuing on with installing libraries and utilities and will follow up with outcome.

L8R

[peeps_59]

Well, with all of those errors in installing the drivers, it must not have completed the install. The included file in this post shows the output from trying to ./configure the alsa-lib files. Any help from anybody???

[Timothy L. Miller]

I assume then you also got no errors during make? I downloaded the errors, will take me a while to look through them though and see if I can help any...

[peeps_59]

Well, well, well. The ALSA people had a mistake in RC3 and put in a file that didn't belong. I deleted the entire 'driver' directory, then un-archived the file again, deleted the extraneous file, then did a configure, make, make install. Now everything seems to have been installed correctly (I think). NOW, I come to the place I was before I tried RC3. Everytime I try to modprobe snd-cs4236 (with all of the options) the system says it can't find module snd-cs4236. One of the scripts (I don't remember which one) did a depmod -a. I went into Konqueror and did a 'find files' and the file is located in /lib/modules/2.4.18/misc. The kernel I am using is 2.4.18-3, so I put a sym. link under 2.4.18-3 as misc and pointed it to 2.4.18/misc (did I do right?). How do I get the system to see all of those modules in ~/2.4.18/misc?

TIA