[WBEL-users] sis 7018 soundcard does not work

[TNguyennsj@netscape.net]

Michiel van Es <info@pcintelligence.nl> wrote:

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>TNguyennsj@netscape.net wrote:
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>> Hi list,
>> I recently ditched fedora and switched to WBEL.  Under fedora the soundcard on my laptop worked.  However, now it does not.  The soundcard is a onboard sis 7018.  When I use the soundcard settings in system settings, and click on "Play test sound" button, I get the following error popup.
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>> The trident driver could not be loaded.  This soundcard may not be compatible with Linux.
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>> Here is the modules.conf content.
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>> alias eth0 sis900
>> alias usb-controller usb-ohci
>> alias sound-slot-0 trident
>> post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>> pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>> 
>> Any suggestion?
>> 
>> J.T.
>> 
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>Fedora is a bleeding edge distro with the newest version of all drivers.
>WBEL is based on the stable side of Fedora, so do not expect to have the 
>newest drivers working out-of-the box on WBEL 3.0 even if they just 
>worked fine on Fedora.
>
>M.
>

Actually I used Redhat 9.0 before going to fedora, and the soundcard worked, too.  WBEL detects the card but can't load the driver, and I think the driver is not installed.  I did  some searching on google, and found that the driver for this card is supported in kernel 2.4.18.  Here is an post from Alan Cox 

    * From: Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>
    * To: sound-list redhat com
    * Subject: Re: [Sound] SiS 7018 audio problem
    * Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:20:26 +0000 (GMT)

> *I had exactly the same problem, but I have a deskside computer. I found 
> some commercially available driver but forgotten where, for $20,-. I 
> ended up buying a good pci soundcard for about US $ 15,-

The SIS7018 is supported in 2.4.18

WBEL has 2.4.20 kernel.   SIS7018 is using a trident driver, but I cannot find its module in /lib at all.

J.T.

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