Raffaele, I followed what you suggested and took a look at the generated .conf file and it's documentation in isapnp.conf man page. Two cards showed up, one sound and my modem. Just when I was about to dig in and try to edit the .conf, I noticed that the .conf identified my sound card as cs4236. I never knew exactly the designation of my card. When my sound was working in the past, I specified cs4232 using harddrake, since the MDK default cs42xx did not work. This was just a guess on my part, and for some unknow reason, it woked. Buthowever this time no mater what I did 4232 would not work. Anyway I did not have to run iaspnp. All I did was use harddrake to locate and set the driver to cs4236B. Just for kicks I rebooted and when the sound card was initialized, my speckers barked (that never happened before). So I thought YAH it's going to work. When I tried my CD player, however, it did not work. But I remembered the aumix 'mute all' problem. So I ran aumix (which would never run before), unchecked 'mute all', adjusted settings to midrange. Now I have sound!!!
Although I did not use isapnp, it did allow me to find the correct driver. So thanks a lot for your suggestion. mike On Tuesday 25 November 2003 04:16 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > You're using an ISA PnP card? I have two ISA sound cards on the home PC, > none of which was correctly set up by MDK, I had to do some manual work. > > From what I understood the card is detected by the kernel at boot (you > see a message in the syslog) but not configured or activated. To do this > you need to install the isapnp tools. pnpdump scans your ISA bus and > prints to stdout a possible configuration file for your card. You edit > this file selecting less /etc/modules.conf | soundthe settings you need, then feed it to isapnp which > configures and activates the card. > > Now you can load the kernel drivers with insmod snd-cs4232. If you don't > do the isapnp step, the insmod will fail. > > You can check if it worked with cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat (or > something like that), it should show the soundcard status. > > I'm by no means an expert, so I cannot guarantee it will work for you > like it did for me.less /etc/modules.conf | sound > > good luck, > > raffaele > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Monday 24 November 2003 07:14 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: > >>*********************************************************************** > >>Sound server informational message: > >>Error while initializing the sound driver: > >>device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no file or directory) > >>The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > >>*********************************************************************** > >> > >>I have no sound from CD player. Just to get information, I started the > >>sound server. A reboot then gives the above message. It is probably the > >>same reason my CD doesn't work?? It sounds like there is no sound > >> driver, but harddrake says there is. A driver is also initialized in > >> boot log. > >> > >>mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] madolf] > > > > More information: The sound module doesn't seem to be there! > > > > #less /etc/modules.conf | grep sound > > alias sound-slot-0 snd-cs4232 > > # /sbin/lsmod | grep snd-cs4232 > > nothing?? > > > > # /sbin/lsmod (shows) > > snd 40868 0 > > > > mike
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