[ale] modem, xserver, sound...

[Glenn R. Stone]

Ela Teica wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> i have all the problems:
> - PCI internal modem(MDP 7800)- completely invisible for linux;

Umm, yeah, as it was said before, that's a WinModem, and will never
work under Linux... well, maybe if Bill Gates goes to work for TransMeta...
:)

> - S3 Trio 3D vga card (the s3 server fails in xf86setup, i'm left
> with the generic vga option...:().

is XFree86-S3 installed?

> - ESS ES1869 soundcard ("device busy" error...).

Make sure your kernel is compiled to support the card (use modules!), then run
sndconfig.

/usr/src/linux/README for more info on the kernel (if it's not there, 
install the kernel-src RPM); sndconfig is pretty self-explanatory.

-- Glenn