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Finally got sound running, am posting this to
hopefully help others. After having to upgrade a friends BIOS to get a PNP
USB modem to work, i went to my motherboards webpage and found if there were any
earlier past revisions of my BIOS (yes i wasnt going to upgrade my BIOS for PNP,
i was going to revert to an OLDER BIOS for more legacy,non PNP support). Flashed
the BIOS, made sure PNP was set too OFF-not only in the master control, but the
older BIOS let me control PNP/ISA control for each slot...suddenly, i was able
to load the sb module into the kernel, however upon reboots the IRQ=5-probe
failed (building a monolithic kernel or dist-upgrading to kernel 2.2.19
didnt help get sound this weekend.....grrrrrrr)..Tried another hardware
trick of clearing the ESCD on the BIOS (sometimes called the DMI
pool...basically it helps the motherboard configure hardware, but it can be
influenced/written to by the operating system). my soundcard then started
jumping around on IRQs.....upon clearing and rebooting 3 times, it suddenly held
onto IRQ=10 and DMA=0,2 (previously Windows was using this soundcard with a
IRQ=5, DMA=1,3 and kernel 2.4 was using the same settings).After pulling the
harddrive and loading my Windows harddrive,Windows was now seeing the soundcard
on IRQ=10,DMA=0,2...........WHHHHHEEEEEEE !!!!!!! I dont know why i had to
go thru all of this to get sound working..it has worked before on this
motherboard w/both corel and storm, however i had installed progeny on another
system and was having problems getting the sb16 to work on it....that
motherboard didnt have any BIOS revisions, but clearing the ESCD(DMI pool)
2+ times helped get it working also (P2 266-333 chips on a LX
chipset)
Now i too have sound! Now i too am
experiencing the gmixer issue! YESSSSS!
btw.....i too get the message, right before gmd is
started that my system is starting the sound driver, and then that no sound
cards are configured....however upon running dmesg, that message is NOT
included...however sound works!!! but this is probably why gmixer does
not.
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