Redhat 7 locks up solid with soundcard on

[samwichse]

Ok, I installed RedHat 7 on a partition of my computer, and it all runs good and all except if I try to enable my comps built in sound in the bios. It detects it properly (I think), installs it, then trys to play a sample and freezes up to where I have to hit reset and disable again. I tried download the ALSA drivers, but I can't get the make install to go through because it said that something about the kernel version was missing, but it's the latest version and I tried re-installing that to no avail. Oh yeah, it's a Via KX133 chipset with EPoX on the box.

[WCox]

Try moving your sound card to another pci slot. I'm assuming it is a pci soundcard. It is probably trying to share the same IRQ with your video card. Hope this helps.

[WCox]

One more thing. In a terminal window give this command to see what IRQ's are being used by your pci devices: cat /proc/pci

Hope this helps.

[samwichse]

I can't move the soundcard to a different slot because it's built into the motherboard, and I can't move the video card because it's agp and there's only the one slot. Would there be some other way to tinker with the irq settings?

[WCox]

The only other way would be through your motherboard's bios, if that is possible. Sorry, that's all the help I can give you. Maybe someone else has an idea about your problem. Have a nice day!