CM8738 in FC4

[Mr Chris Aitken]

I want to get my wife's FC4 computer playing sound. I'm not going to try 
anything heroic like the failed e-mu1212m / alsa troubleshoot on the 
ubuntu machine, but she bought a pair of computer speakers and would 
like to be able to play mp3's and play youtube videos. Of course, sound 
is not coming out of the speakers.

system-config-soundcard detects:

Vendor: C-Media
Model: Electronics Inc. CM8738
Module: snd-cmipci

I hit the 'Play test sound' button and system-config-soundcard freezes.

lspci sees the card as well:
00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)

Can't I just download an alsa that will work with FC4 and then untar it 
and run an executable? Editing the repository file in ubuntu didn't work 
for me. I'm not sure I want to do the equivalent on this machine in FC4. 
It's the administration production machine for our business and with tax 
time coming up I don't want to tell her I pooched the OS to get youtube 
playing.

And yeah, I know, FC4 sucks and it's obsolete and I should switch to 
distro x, y or z because it's great and everything will just "work". 
Well my experience tells me this is not so, so I would like to make it 
work without any latest'n'greatest stuff.

Chris

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