[Tyler1989]

Where on earth can one find the Device manager on a OS based off Redhat/Fedora?

[horndude]

kde-->start/system/control center or utilities/peripherals, or probably redhats version of yum or yast, not sure

linux isnt windows, a "device manager" like your used to in windows doesnt really exist in linux, all they are is GUI front ends to commandline apps already there

[Tyler1989]

I honestly haven't been using windows as much. I was told there was a device manager though where I could change my sound card driver from a list are you saying it doesn't exist?

[horndude]

dont believe that exists,nope

simple solution, open a terminal as root and use either modprobe -r or rmmod to remove or unload the current kernel module for your sound card then use modprobe or insmod to load another one

currently loaded modules will be listed with lsmod

[Tyler1989]

I will try that and hope for the best that a generic driver will work.

[horndude]

available modules can be found in /lib/modules/.......

also the modules init script should have a section for uncommenting and commenting most kernel modules at boot up, cant remember what the sysV init scripts are called, but they are in /etc, rc something, I think they are numbered rc.1 rc.2 ect etc

you wont need to type the whole thing, just the first part w/o the .o.gz

insmod sb16 would load the soundblaster 16 module, insmod 8139too loads the realek8139 NIC module, they are all abbreviated like this