[CentOS] Isa Soundcard under CentOS 5

[Patrick]

Olaf Mueller wrote:

> Yes, this could be a way. Initially I have chosen CentOS 5 for my
> admittedly very old but also nice notebook toshiba tecra 8000 cause of
> the long term support that CentOS has. This notebook has seen all the
> fedora core versions from 1 to 6. And after each new upgrade something
> get wrong, usually the isa sound card stops the work. My hope was to
> install CentOS once and getting all the things run, yum will do the
> rest and I get peace for a few years. But if I had to build my own
> kernel, I will get no peace.
> 
> I am completely happy with CentOS 5 on my server. It would be great to
> have such a nice system also on my notebook.
> 
> 
> regards
> Olaf

   Is there a reason you do not want to run one of the Fedora Cores that 
worked (other than support)? I ran Fedora Core 1 on a server until just 
very recently. The only reason I upgraded the OS was because I was also 
upgrading the hardware; otherwise, I would have just left what was 
working alone. If your notebook works fine with one of the older 
kernels, just run that one. As long as you are not running a web server 
or something that will be constantly scanned by the script kiddies, you 
should not have any problems.

Patrick