I have that sound card too and I opted to compile the driver into the kernel. It can take a few tries before you get the IO ports, IRQ and DMA channels right (especially if you don't read all the the documentation first ;-) but you won't have to deal with isapnp.
Also, run pnpdump to make sure that's actually what you've got and that it's working correctly. The output of pnpdump can also be used to create an /etc/isapnp.conf file if you don't already have one. William Staniewicz wrote: > I have looked over the Linux HOWTO and searched the archives > but nothing seems to help. I am thinking that maybe isapnp is not > running at boot since I see no reference to it in dmesg. How > do I find out if it is? Where do I set it up to run if it isn't > running? >