Ok. Try running the hardware configuration from Darkconf. See
if it detects your soundcard. Do you have sound in kde?
Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > With your soundblaster first thing is do you have "PNP OS" enabled in
> > your bios? If so, it won't work.
>
> Not here. I run a Soyo 6ba+III with an AWE64. In both Windows
> and Linux I never have set the bios (Award 4.51) to enable 'png os'.
> I believe setting 'png' and 'ACPI' disabled solves a lot of problems
> for both OS's. I've set up my SB several times with 'sndconfig' run
> from a level 3 (eg., NOT in X) console as root.
> --
> ~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: BrewMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: linux-mandrake newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:30 AM
> > Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktop acting
> > wierd?
> >
> >
> > > I just installed Mandrke complete 7.0 a couple of days ago. I am still
> > > trying to get the hang of it. There are a couple of things that I am
> > > wondering about so far.
> > > 1 - I can't get my Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 to work. I dropped
> > > to another session as root, used both sndconfig and soundconfig, but
> > > neither gets the card to work. sndconfig hangs after saying it finds a
> > > pnp soundcard, and soundconfig says the device is busy. I used the same
> > > settings for address, IRQ and DMA that show up on my computers boot
> > > sequence in soundconfig.
> > >
> > > 2 - There are about 4 icons that have disappeared from my desktop in
> > > Gnome, including the autostart, trash, and a couple others. They
> > > are present on a directory listing on a terminal session, and show up on
> > > a KDE session. They seem to sporadically pop up, and I can't see any
> > > reproducible actions I have made that do this. I can't figure this out.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the thoughts. I am sure more questions will come with time.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ken
> > >
> > >
