On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: > it's not hard. > i have a creative sound blaster 16 myself. > just do "modprobe sb" and you're all set.
I'm surprised - that *did* work. I had managed to get it working before on a previous installation of potato I had by jumping through hoops with insmod, isapnp and suchlike. [bad memory on my part - I have no idea these days just what I finally did last time to get it to work :] > i think you're supposed to edit /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules > and add an alias for sb > but i bet modutils can do that for you. I remember trying to do that before and ending up with a ton of "/etc/modules.conf is newer than /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/modules.dep" errors [and vice-versa]. > good luck and don't forget "saytime" and "mpg123" First things I grabbed. :) -- "...there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes into work every day and has a job to do." [Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"] http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa343/index.html