I'm wondering since your card is ISA and I have trouble with an ISA
card, if it isn't ISA in general. ?? I went and bought a PCI sound card
and it works fine now. Something is hosed for all ISA sound I think.
Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
>
> I installed cooker from rsync last weekend, and was able to get everything
> working but sound, I asked about it on the list but no one was able to
> help, I am asking again because this is problem is really starting to get
> to me, I REALLY like cooker/7.1 but if I cannot get sound working I will
> have to switch back to 7.0 (which set up the sound card with no
> intervention from me except running Lothar). I consider sound support a
> necessity.
>
> HardDrake succesfully detected my sound card as:
>
> Vendor: Advance Logic
>
> Model: ALS-110
>
> Bus type: ISA
>
> MPU401: yes
>
> OPL3: yes
>
> DMA2/16: yes
>
> This is the correct information, when I click "run configuration tool" a
> window comes up with IRQ, I/O base, etc. Under Mandrake 7.0 I just clicked
> OK here and sound worked after that, but on cooker the window just goes
> away when I click OK and sound still does not work. I tried running (as
> root) `/etc/rc.d/init.d/sound start` but it simply goes strait back to the
> command prompt; in Mandrake 7.0 I am pretty sure it gave a message to the
> effect that sound was being loaded and an indication of whether it
> succeeded or not, but with cooker it appears to instantly return to the
> command prompt with no output whatsoever. I looked inside the script, and I
> am not a terribly good shell programmer but it looks like I should be
> seeing the messages
>
> Loading sound module
> Loading midi module
>
> And I do not see these messages when I run 'sound start'. I also looks like
> it loads the modules by searching in /etc/conf.modules for the strings
> "sound", "sound-slot-0", and "midi" and modprobeing the modules it finds
> there. I think that this is the failure point because here is my
> /etc/conf.modules :
>
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 ppa
> post-install usb-storage modprobe usbkbd; modprobe keybdev
> alias scsi_hostadapter usb-storage
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
> alias block-major-11 scsi_hostadapter
> alias usb-interface usb-uhci
> pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
> post-install supermount modprobe scsi_hostadapter ; modprobe scsi_hostadapter1
>
> There is no reference to any sound modules, I thought that HardDrake was
> supposed to put the appropriate references there am I wrong about this or
> is HardDrake failing somehow? I am ashamed to say that as much as I like
> sound, I have never learned about how OSS works; relying instead on
> RedHat's and Mandrake's sound configuration programs to figure out the
> correct lines for conf.modules; so I do not know on my own what lines to
> put here. If I had been smart I would have copied the conf.modules from 7.0
> before installing cooker, but I wasn't smart so here I am now. I have faith
> that you guys can help me if I give you enough info, so if I am not giving
> enough information please tell me what you need to know.
>
> PS, I do not have any USB equipment, so is it safe for me to remove all
> those usb lines? I rmmod all the modules but they just show up in
> /proc/modules again when I reboot.
>
> --
> Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS
> West Dover Hundred, Delaware
