did your integrated i810 sound card get turned on in the bios? I would first disable this card in the bios, then try to reconfigure via Mandrake Control Center.
On Monday 17 December 2001 06:14 am, you wrote: > I've got a Soundblaster Live card, plus an integrated i810 sound chip. > I'm using the SB exclusively - I don't want to have anything to do with the > latter. The sound configuration on my system, which never worked adequately > to start with ( =midi nonfunctional), has gone from bad to worse. One > day when I started up the system, Linux decided suddenly to detect the i810 > to which it had until then paid no attention. Now the situation is that > whenever I start up the system I have to run sndconfig to get _any_ sound > at all out. The "configure" functionality in HardDrake can't do anything at > all about it: when it tries to play an 8 bit sample with the i810, > I get 'sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied' (and no > sound), and when it tries the same thing for SBLive, I get no errors, nor > sound. > > Now, I'm absolutely losing patience with this PoS. Could someone advice > me how to get things in working order? It would be absolutely wonderful > to get instructions on how to remove _everything_ related to sound and > then reinstall the drivers/whatevers _correctly_ from scratch. > > Also, I can't figure out how to get my joystick detected. It's an > old-fashioned non-USB affair (a Gravis with a rudder wheel), and I have > two joy ports to spare, one in the motherboard, one in the SB card. > > > +Cinquo
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