Yet another soundcard mishap

[guruwannabe]

Yeah, I noticed just by going through the first few pages of this section of the forums that there are quite a few people who have problems with Fedora detecting their soundcard, and the basis of my own situation doesn't seem to be any different. However, here is my deal:

I'm having a bit of a problem regarding my installation of Fedora Core 3 and some hardware compatibilities (mostly because the devices in question are quite old; as is this PC - but I digress), the latest of which involves the lack of sound. Here's what I'm working with:

Creative AWE64 16-Bit (SB16 compatible) on ISA Bridge

Now I know, ISA is ancient, but please tell me I'm not going to have to buy (even though I should) another soundcard ha. When I attempt the "Soundcard Detection" process in the "Applications" menu, it tells me that no soundcards are present. lspci also gives me nothing on the soundcard front, which leads me to this question: What the hell!?

Any help on what I could do to solve this little predicament? You can even point me in the general direction of a place to start fixing this. All I need is a starting point, (I wouldn't adverse to solving my problem for me, just for the record) and hopefully I'll be able to get on to my listening pleasure. Thanks.

Charles M.

Since these seem to be asked for often, here are my modprobe.conf & /sbin/lsmod:


Modprobe.conf
alias eth0 8139too
alias snd-card-0 snd-sbawe
options snd-card-0 index=0
install snd-sbawe /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-sbawe && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-sbawe { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-sbawe
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd


/sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
autofs4 26181 0
md5 4161 1
ipv6 259201 10
ppp_synctty 11841 0
ppp_async 13249 1
crc_ccitt 2113 1 ppp_async
ppp_generic 39509 6 ppp_synctty,ppp_async
slhc 7105 1 ppp_generic
ipt_REJECT 7105 1
ipt_state 1857 5
iptable_filter 2881 1
iptable_nat 21661 0
ip_conntrack 40601 2 ipt_state,iptable_nat
ip_tables 19777 4 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter,iptable_nat
uhci_hcd 33497 0
i2c_piix4 8657 0
i2c_core 21953 1 i2c_piix4
ns558 5569 0
gameport 5057 1 ns558
snd_sbawe 30977 2
snd_opl3_lib 12353 1 snd_sbawe
snd_sb16_dsp 16705 1 snd_sbawe
snd_pcm_oss 51953 0
snd_mixer_oss 18241 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 99657 2 snd_sb16_dsp,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 33093 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9669 1 snd_pcm
snd_sb16_csp 24641 1 snd_sbawe
snd_sb_common 20161 3 snd_sbawe,snd_sb16_dsp,snd_sb16_csp
snd_hwdep 9185 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_sb16_csp
snd_mpu401_uart 10049 1 snd_sbawe
snd_rawmidi 28641 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8781 3 snd_sbawe,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 56741 15 snd_sbawe,snd_opl3_lib,snd_sb16_dsp,snd_pcm_oss,sn d_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_sb16_csp,snd_sb_ common,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_s eq_device
soundcore 10785 2 snd
8139too 29505 0
mii 4929 1 8139too
floppy 64753 0
dm_snapshot 17669 0
dm_zero 2497 0
dm_mirror 25773 0
ext3 131145 2
jbd 82777 1 ext3
dm_mod 59221 6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror

[guruwannabe]

Somehow, in the midst of all the crap I did to fix this, I sorted out at least part of my problem. But there still remains a bit of it that needs solving. Strangely enough, I get system notification and bell sounds now without touching any other options to activate sound (whereas Xmms is the only player that works for me, and I have to activate the soundcard in the KDE Control Center each time, and then select my card from the plugin section in the player), but nothing else seems to work in terms of multimedia playback. Also, the system STILL doesn't detect my soundcard when I choose that option in KDE. I'm stumped now because this seems to be quite obscure. Any suggestions? I'm pretty lost here now ha.

EDIT: I should also note that there is a very noticable lag in playback of the system notifications, etc as well which I'm wondering how to fix.