esssolo1 PCI tool??

Greetings: I have an esssolo1 card that works fine on two machines with Award BIOS - Slackware7.1, using the esssolo1.o module..

However, moving it to an AMI BIOS MB machine I can't get esssolo1.o to load.. Have removed all other cards that might conflict I/O or IRQ wise, except the onboard 2 Ser and 1 Par.. Tried under Slack7.1 and, also, RedHat 6.2.. Both NG with RH not finding the card using 'sndconfig'...???...

The BIOS mention is probably a coincidence but I was wondering if there is a PCI device tool program other than the normal cat /proc and lspci available, so I might learn something about PCI cards..

I note the opening screen on the AMI BIOS machine reports the PCI VGA card and onboard's, but can't "see" the sound card???

I don't run Windows on any machine so I can't use the diagnostic programs on the CD supplied with the card, if there is one..

I'm mystified. Any suggestions? TIA.

Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware Linux 7.1 (2.2.16)
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