Yao Wang wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I am running 2.2.5-22 from RH 6.0 with a sound blaster 16 card with
> base_addr=0x220, IRQ=5, 8-bit DMA=1 and 16-bit DMA=5 (uncommenting
> a few lines in the pnpdump output. After running isapnp on this config
> file, the sound-modules appeared loaded after rebooting.
> # lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> sound 58392 0 (autoclean) (unused)
You can see that the 'sound' module is stated as not being used and you also
have not loaded the 'sb' module. Doesn't RH6.0 have a sound configuration
utility so you don't have to directly deal with editing the pnpdump output?
> soundlow 300 0 (autoclean) [sound]
> soundcore 2404 3 (autoclean) [sound]
> autofs 9188 1 (autoclean)
> nfs 30072 14 (autoclean)
> nfsd 151576 8 (autoclean)
> lockd 31208 1 (autoclean) [nfs nfsd]
> sunrpc 52420 1 (autoclean) [nfs nfsd lockd]
> via-rhine 9024 1 (autoclean)
> nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean)
> nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean)
> vfat 11420 1 (autoclean)
> fat 25344 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
>
> # cat /proc/devices
> Character devices:
> 1 mem
> 2 pty
> 3 ttyp
> 4 ttyS
> 5 cua
> 7 vcs
> 10 misc
> 14 sound
> 21 sg
> 29 fb
> 36 netlink
> 128 ptm
> 136 pts
>
> Block devices:
> 1 ramdisk
> 2 fd
> 3 ide0
> 8 sd
> 9 md
> 11 sr
> 22 ide1
>
> But:
> #cat /dev/sndstat
> OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
> Load type: Driver loaded as a module
> Kernel: Linux lion 2.2.5-22 #3 Thu Jan 13 17:50:55 EST
> 2000 i686
> Config options: 0
>
> Installed drivers:
You see, there is no driver installed.
>
> Card config:
>
> Audio devices:
>
> Synth devices:
>
> Midi devices:
>
> Timers:
> 0: System clock
>
> Mixers:
With a SB16 card I usually get an audio, synth and mixer device and you
have none.
>
> I could not play music to it and was wondering about some info on
> sound config with 2.2.x (sound + soundcore + soundlow)? Am i running
> something new on an rather old hardware?
No, but you must also load the 'sb' module.
>
> more info:
> # isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> Board 1 has Identity e5 ff ff ff ff 70 00 8c 0e: CTL0070 Serial No -1
> [checksum e5]
>
> could someone give me any hint?
>
> Thanks a lot.
If you are into kernel compiling I found that since using linux-2.3.25
my SB16 card runs and installs a lot smoother because of the PNP support
directly in the kernel. I always found /etc/isapnp.conf a pain to deal
with.
Peter
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