On Sunday 29 April 2001 03:48 pm, Harry Kim wrote:
> hi i am having problems with my sb16 sound card... im running mandrake
> 7.2
> when i run sndconfig i get the following error when it tries to play a
> test sound
>
> modprobe error
>
> The following error occured running the modprobe program:
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource
> busy
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/sb.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/sb.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/sb.o: insmod sound-slot-0 failed
>
>
> any help or suggestions would be helpful
I had a similar problem using the same soundcard under Mandrake 7.2. The
"This is Linux Torvalds ... " message would try to play, but cut off in the
middle of the first syllable. Sometimes the .WAV file would play properly,
sometimes it wouldn't. The problem seems to be that sndconfig would select
settings that *almost* worked -- they should be valid, but probably
conflicted with some other hardware.
I found that if you tell sndconfig that everything is okay, then rerun
sndconfig (sometimes two or three times) eventually it would configure my
soundcard properly. Remember, do *not* tell sndconfig that the configuration
is wrong, just accept them -- and then run it again. Apparently sndconfig
looks at the previous settings and tries something different from its list of
acceptable settings.
Always log into a text session as root before running sndconfig, of course.
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