Sorry to say it, but you have a configuration conflict there. If your
sound card and your floppy drive are trying to use the same DMA channel,
then the solution is to change one of them if at all possible. If your
sound card has jumpers for it's configuration on the card, try changing
the one for the DMA chanel in conflict to a chanel not in use (assuming
there is one).
If your sound card is an ISA PnP card like mine, then you may need to
run the isapmptools to set up your card. To do this, from a Konsole
window or a Console (text mode), run
isapnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
Next you must edit the isapnp.conf file, enabling the correct parameters
to eliminate the conflict. Finally, you run
isapnp
to set up the card. I know that this is a daunting process, but there is
help right there on your system in
/usr/doc/isapnptools-1,18,
and in the man pages, using
man isaapnp,
and
man isapnp.conf.
I hope this is of some help,
Ernie
R_Yeo wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Running KDE1.1.1, Mandrake6.0.
> Whenever I boot up my notebook(not often- about once a week), I do not
> get any sound until I run sndconfig. Everything runs fine on the
> sndconfig, and then it tells me that I already have a config file and
> would I like to overwrite. I hit yes and I'm away. It's more
> irritating that anything else.
> My initial trouble shooting brought me to realise that one of the
> problems was because my FDD (external - from the parallel port) and the
> sound card was like seeing who would get the first DMA. But, if I leave
> my FDD continuously plugged in, I would still get this problem.
> Same problems encountered when I was running RH6.0. Any suggestions,
> anyone?
>
> --
> Ronald Yeo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
