RedHat 9 on Laptop in Need of help with getting everything to work correctly

[Dagger_Spell]

I have a Compaq Presario R3000 laptop that right now i have as a dual boot system WIN XP Pro and REDHAT 9 the problems i am having is that i can not find the drivers for my sound card or video card if i can find out where to get these and how to install them i will be getting rid of windoze all together I am very new to linux i am currently taking a class in linux but the teacher does not seem to have time to try and help me get everything working I hope that someone in these fourms can help me Thanks for anyhelp you can give me :grinthumb