Getting sound card to work in Linux (Red Hat 7)

[isuru]

I have installed Red Hat Linux 7 and found out that my sound card hadn't been set up to be used in Linux. I found out that you can configure a sound card using sndconfig.

Unfortunately (me being the lazy person I am), I ran the sndconfig from a terminal window in the K Desktop Environment (KDE) (even though it advised me not to run it from the KDE terminal). The sndconfig utility recognized my sound card but when I went to test the sound card (to make sure it worked), the compuer crashed.

When I restarted my computer and rebooted into Linux, the boot process got to the point where it started to laod the Sound Module, then the system crashed.

This happens every time I try to boot into Linux and so I can't boot into Linux now.

My sound card is a soundcard which was built into the mother board. (I think it's VIA something or other)

Could someone please help me with this problem?

I would really appreciate any help.

Thank You

 

[MGMorden]

When at the lilo prompt (assuming you're using lilo) type 'linux single'. That'll get you to a mode you can use to remove that sound module from the bootup script (or run an uninstall script if they have that option). Then you can try the procedure again. You might also want to look on the newsgroups (would say to use Dejanews but Google has ruined it) to see if anyone has gotten that soundcard to work with your distro and then see if they listed the steps they took (and if they didn't just post/email and ask them).