Old laptop, newish Linux not totally happy

I have an older laptop, a Toshiba Tecra 510CDT. It has 148meg of RAM and a 40gig hard drive. I had (and will have again) White Box Linux 3.0, aka RHEL 3.0 (with a 2.4.20 kernel). Everything was working fine, including its sound card, a CS4232 type card (built-in).

This morning I upgraded it to CentOS 4.3, aka RHEL 4.3 (2.6.9 kernel). I had previous (on another machine running CentOS 4.3) build a custom kernel with the CS4232 sound driver enabled. After the upgrade and after installing the new kernel and installing lilo, I have two problems:

1) Lilo is not happy. With linear disabled (this is an older machine with an older BIOS) Lilo only does 'LI' and stops. The version of lilo with WBL 3.0 works just fine. So I am stuck with grub (which I just don't like).

2) I cannot get the sound card to work. I use my laptop as a kind of overgrown IPod, so the sound is important. It is the only machine I have with a sound card.

There is one Chech (.cz?) guy with one of these running Slackware 9.1 -- a 2.4.25 kernel (comparable to WBL 3.0's 2.4.20 kernel).

Robert Heller -- 978-544-68 plus 133 Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration