On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, you wrote: I bow to the Linux King . You were right on the money with the dma2 idea. Wouldn't you know it's one settings I hadn't tried. BTW: is that what u call debugging? That's news to me ... Guess I'm learning. Thanks a lot this has been causing me a lot of sleep since I'm one of those guys that can't let it go . Steven G > > Okay, try modifying /etc/config.modules and set the opl3sa2 line to > this: > > options opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=1 mpu_io=0x330 > > From looking at the module source, those options look correct. > > Next, check to see if any of the DMA, IRQ or IO areas are already > taken. You can read the current info in /proc in the 'interrupts', > 'dma', and 'ioports' files. > > Don't know how much help any of this will be, since it looks like you've > done a pretty good job of debugging it. Next stop might be the > newsgroups or linux kernel mailing list. > > -- > Steve Philp > [EMAIL PROTECTED]