Hi there, I have just installed red hat 9 on a relativelly old laptop (Toshiba Satellite 1800-804). Everything looks good during installation except the sound. Indeed, I can't get the it to produce a sound. When I try to play a simple wav file, I got the message "Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No shuch device) When I try to detect the sound card, it finds the model M5451 PCI AC-Link, which does not seem to match the model I found in the toshiba web site (ALi M1535 AK4543). Anyway, the following error appears: "The Trident driver could not be loaded. This soundcard may not be compatible with red hat linux" Ok, I'm a complete ignorant in Linux (first installation). Can you give me some help in a language I can understand? ("For dummies" style) Thanks a lot, Olivier

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