> Given that your soundchip was not detected on installation, or that > alsaconf > fails to detect it, then I suspect you may may a problem with IRQ > conflicts. > If you type 'dmesg' in a terminal you will see all the boot messages. If > you > scroll up you may see some clues.
No IRQ conflicts. I found out that my alsaconf hangup problem was because I was running it with an ALSA driver already loaded. When I restarted the computer with no driver loaded, it was able to scan without freezing up. The bad news is that it did a complete scan and came back saying "no ISA cards detected." If I manually put all the stuff shown on the ALSA website into /etc/modules.conf, the driver loads, and I get CD audio, but when I try to play a WAV file in any application, it acts as though it's playing, but there is no sound. Another thing I tried after reading back over everyone's suggestions was to run sndconfig. If I restarted with no sound drivers loaded, and then ran sndconfig, it detected my sound hardware and configured my /etc/modules.conf like this: alias sound-slot-0 cs4232 options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options cs4232 isapnp=1 This actually gave me sound when playing WAV files in XMMS using the OSS driver, but, when I tried to play the same file in a couple of other apps under the Multimedia>Sound menu, there was no sound. Also, I have seen other people talk about sounds that play when KDE starts up or shuts down, and I don't get that (I don't know if I have to configure that somewhere first). And when I go to Configuration>Configure Your Desktop>LookNFell>System Notifications and try to click the button to test any of the sounds, I get nothing. So, it appears that the only thing I gained by running sndconfig was that I can play files via XMMS. Just for the heck of it, I tried adding back the ALSA stuff I had previously entered into /etc/modules.conf to see if I could get better results by combining it with the stuff that sndconfig did, but it didn't work. Here are the two variations I tried: ### Start ### alias eth0 3c59x probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 cs4232 options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options cs4232 isapnp=1 #ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4232 options snd-cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=3 #OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 #card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ### End ### and ### Start ### alias eth0 3c59x probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 cs4232 options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options cs4232 isapnp=1 #ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236 options snd-cs4236 io=0x534 cport=0x120 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=3 #OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 #card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ### End ### As I said earlier, neither one of these worked (not that I really expected them to--I was just taking a stab in the dark). Anyway, I was encouraged when I saw that I could play a WAV file in XMMS after running sndconfig, but now I'm not sure what I really gained. I hope this info is helpful to someone that may be able to point me to the next step. Thanks.
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