Frans, Ok, so i have done all the things you suggested, but to be honest i'm not to sure what i'm looking for in the 'cat /proc/isapnp'. I'll put it at the bottom of this message so if some kind person decided to help me out you can see it but everybody else can ignore thee long post!
The '/sbin/lsmod'shows: Module Size Used by Not tainted isofs 25792 1 (autoclean) inflate_fs 19328 0 (autoclean) [isofs] sg 30180 0 (autoclean) (unused) st 27316 0 (autoclean) (unused) sr_mod 15160 0 (autoclean) (unused) sd_mod 11644 0 (autoclean) (unused) scsi_mod 92488 4 (autoclean) [sg st sr_mod sd_mod] autofs4 9252 2 (autoclean) ad1848 21408 0 sound 57292 0 [ad1848] soundcore 4068 2 [sound] nfsd 69536 8 (autoclean) lockd 49344 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 62964 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] lp 6464 0 parport_pc 22088 1 parport 23968 1 [lp parport_pc] af_packet 12488 0 (autoclean) ipchains 35816 0 usb-uhci 21668 0 (unused) usbcore 59072 1 [usb-uhci] nls_iso8859-15 3360 3 (autoclean) nls_cp850 3584 2 (autoclean) vfat 9788 2 (autoclean) fat 31384 0 (autoclean) [vfat] supermount 62180 2 (autoclean) tuner 8612 1 (autoclean) tvaudio 10080 0 (autoclean) (unused) bttv 59776 0 i2c-algo-bit 7244 1 [bttv] i2c-core 13568 0 [tuner tvaudio bttv i2c-algo-bit] videodev 4896 2 [bttv] rtc 5912 0 (autoclean) ext3 62092 2 jbd 39356 2 [ext3] The /etc/modules.conf file shows: alias autofs autofs4 alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-2 ad1848 alias char-major-81 bttv alias /dev/ttyHCF* hcfserial alias char-major-240 hcfserial alias /dev/ttyCUA* hcfserial alias char-major-241 hcfserial alias /dev/modem hcfserial options hcfserial serialmajor=240 calloutmajor=241 pcivendorid=0x14F1 pcideviceid=0x1035 Ok, so sorry this is so long, but if anyone can help this newbie, i'll be very greatful and can move further away from uncle bill!! Cheers again Matt "cat /proc/isapnp" Card 1 'CSC4236:Crystal Codec' PnP version 1.0 Product version 0.5 Logical device 0 'CSC0000:WSS/SB' Device is not active Active port 0x534,0x388,0x220 Active IRQ 7 [0x2] Active DMA 1,3 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x534-0x534, align 0x3, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x220-0x220, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5 High-Edge DMA 1 8-bit byte-count compatible DMA 0,3 8-bit byte-count compatible Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x534-0xffc, align 0x3, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x220-0x260, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,11,12,15 High-Edge DMA 1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible Alternate resources 0:2 Priority functional Port 0x534-0xffc, align 0x3, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x3f8, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x220-0x300, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,11,12,15 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible Logical device 1 'CSC0001:GAME' Device is active Active port 0x200 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x200-0x200, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x208-0x208, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Logical device 2 'CSC0010:CTRL' Device is not active Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x120-0xff8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Logical device 3 'CSC0003:MPU' Device is active Active port 0x330 Active IRQ 9 [0x2] Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x330-0x330, align 0x7, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 2/9 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x330-0x360, align 0x7, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 2/9,11,12,15 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:2 Priority functional Port 0x330-0x3e0, align 0x7, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 13/04/02, 16:12:24, Frans Ketelaars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Sound card problems: > On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:24:38 GMT > Matt Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I've just installed 8.2 but am generally new to Linux having only > > used Redmond Linux before. During setup my soundcard wasn't configured > > properly and the setup told me to run sndconfig later on. So i did that > > and the ISAPNP Probe Results found my sound card: > > > > Model: Crystal Codec:GAME > > > > The first sound card test was ok and i heard the sample sound fine. But > > when it did the second sound card test for the MIDI sample it returned: > > > > modprobe error > > The following error occurred running the modprobe program: > > /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz: > > init_module: No such device > Well, the opl3 device was not found by the opl3 module ;) > > modprobe: insmod > > /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz failed > > modprobe: insmod synth0 failed > Yes, it's about a FM synthesizer for MIDI. But Timidity (on your CD's) > can play MIDI just fine (in fact the sound quality of the opl3 based MIDI > synthesizer is rather bad AFAIK). > > It offered me the chance to do all the setting manually, but i don't know > > what they are. So my questions are: what does the above error mean and if > > i have to set it up manually then how do i find all the settings for it? > 'cat /proc/isapnp' _may_ give you some ideas. It's possible sndconfig made > a mistake and shouldn't have tried to load the opl3 module.... > > Also, the strange thing is that for the rest of the session after i have > > run this, the sound card works fine, so i know it works ok, but then i > > have to run sndconfig again next time i log in, which is quite often at > > the moment as my modem is not supported yet, but thats another story!! > You can check with '/sbin/lsmod' which modules (drivers) are loaded. Let us > know. I think sndconfig loaded a driver for your card, then tried to load the > opl3 module which failed. Because of that sndconfig didn't add the necessary > lines to the /etc/modules.conf file. > > Cheers in advance and thanks to all the mandrake people for a cool distro > > > > Matt > HTH, > -Frans
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