Sound Module

[prince_kenshi]

I'm trying to get my sound card to work and I'm having trouble finding documentation on sound card drivers in general. I've never had to manually install the sound card before because my previous sound card was always automatically detected. I'm running Debian 2.2. There's a specific module for my sound card in the module directory but I don't know what to do with it. When I was running setup, it tried to load it but gave an error message. How can I run this module? And if it will run this time, what do I need to do to get it to load automatically after rebooting if anything? I read about putting the line "sound" in /lib/modules but since that's a directory, I hardly see how I'm supposed to. I'm thankful for all help.

[pbharris]

hello,
i am not sure of what sound card you have, if it is creative labs (sound blaster, sb live, etc...) then go to opensource.creative (i think) to get modules, most sound cards have different modules which will be aliased to sound and sound_core in /etc/modules.conf
paul

[prince_kenshi]

I forgot to put my sound card type in my original message. It's an AC'97 built into my motherboard. I really don't know much about it's compatibilities and specifications though because I just got it about 2 weeks ago. Like I said, there's an exact driver for it in the modules directory, I just don't know how to load it. There's an ac'97.o and an ac'97_codec.o.

[prince_kenshi]

Well I managed to find out how to install modules finally. It turns out that I was already doing it, I was just putting an apostrophy in the filename which didn't go there. But it's telling me the same thing as when I ran setup:

couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for

Is there some place that I can get modules to compile? Or maybe another way to fix this? I'm amazed at how hard it is to find basic information on modules or sound cards in general.