[Sound] NeoMagic hardware in Compaq Presario not working in RH8

[Joe Berry <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm a bit new in the Linux world (I've been a FreeBSD guy). I have
wanted to play with Linux for a bit and so I started with a successful
installation of RH 8.0 onto a Compaq Presario (model 1920) laptop.
Everything works fine except the audio (of which there isn't any).
I've done a bunch of searching on a bunch of Linux sites but can't
figure out just what is wrong with my configuration.  Here are the
particulars:

Software was a download from RedHat (about a week ago).

"uname -a" shows
Linux bill.topshot.com 2.4.18-14 #1
Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 EDT 2002 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

When I run "sndconfig", I get the following output in
/var/log/messages:

Nov 24 15:36:33 bill kernel: NeoMagic 256AV/256ZX audio driver, version 1.1p
Nov 24 15:36:33 bill kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 01:00.1
Nov 24 15:36:33 bill kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:07.2
Nov 24 15:36:33 bill kernel: NM256: This doesn't look to me like the AC97-compatible
version.
Nov 24 15:36:33 bill kernel:        You can force the driver to load by passing in the
module
Nov 24 15:36:33 bill kernel:        parameter:
Nov 24 15:36:33 bill kernel:               force_ac97 = 1
Nov 24 15:36:33 bill kernel: 
Nov 24 15:36:33 bill kernel:        More likely, you should be using the appropriate SB-16
or
Nov 24 15:36:33 bill kernel:        CS4232 driver instead.  (If your BIOS has settings for
Nov 24 15:36:33 bill kernel:        IRQ and/or DMA for the sound card, this is *not* the
correct
Nov 24 15:36:33 bill kernel:        driver to use.)
Nov 24 15:36:33 bill modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0
Nov 24 15:36:33 bill modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0
Nov 24 15:36:35 bill modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0
Nov 24 15:36:35 bill modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3

I tried entering "force_ac97=1" in my /etc/modules.conf file but it
didn't help.

Here's what lsmod shows:
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
nm256_audio            72732   0  (unused)
sound                  74388   0  [nm256_audio]
ac97                    5088   0  [nm256_audio]
ide-cd                 33608   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  33696   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
soundcore               6532   2  (autoclean) [sound]
3c574_cs               12580   1 
autofs                 13348   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ds                      8712   2  [3c574_cs]
yenta_socket           12960   2 
pcmcia_core            54784   0  [3c574_cs ds yenta_socket]
iptable_filter          2412   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables              14936   1  [iptable_filter]
mousedev                5524   1 
keybdev                 2976   0  (unused)
hid                    22244   0  (unused)
input                   5888   0  [mousedev keybdev hid]
usb-uhci               26188   0  (unused)
usbcore                77024   1  [hid usb-uhci]
ext3                   70368   2 
jbd                    52212   2  [ext3]

And last, here's a copy of my /etc/modules.conf file:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias eth0 3c574_cs

Any pointers, URL site references, or other assistance would be
appreciated.  I'm thinking next to load RH 7.1 (which I have) and see
how that works.

Thanks,

Joe
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