Installing Drivers/module For Linux

[Dennis]

To kick this off, I have a question about the installation of drivers/module in Linux. I had just downloaded Redhat 9, burnt the iso images into bootable CDs and installed them together with my Win XP Pro, using the Linux bootloader to have a dual boot.

 

Everything works so far, except for my Soundblaster Live sound card and my Alcatel Speedtouch USB Modem.

 

The Linux kernel was able to detect my sound card but the drivers/module that came with the installation didn't worked with it.

 

Now, my question is, must I uninstall the original drivers and modules before installing the new soundblaster live drivers for Linux which I had downloaded from sourceforge?

 

I remebered that I edited some config files for this soundcard to work when I was trying out Redhat 7.2(they didn't had the drivers included back then). So this this round, since the drivers was included, must I delete away the included drivers, symbolic links etc?

 

Would be grateful for any advice, as I didn't want to mess up the system too much by tweaking it too much......

 

Thanks

 

Dennis