Raffaele,
I followed what you suggested and took a look at the generated .conf file and
it's documentation in isapnp.conf man page. Two cards showed up, one sound
and my modem. Just when I was about to dig in and try to edit the .conf, I
noticed that the .conf identified my sound card as cs4236. I never knew
exactly the designation of my card. When my sound was working in the past, I
specified cs4232 using harddrake, since the MDK default cs42xx did not work.
This was just a guess on my part, and for some unknow reason, it woked.
Buthowever this time no mater what I did 4232 would not work. Anyway I did
not have to run iaspnp. All I did was use harddrake to locate and set the
driver to cs4236B. Just for kicks I rebooted and when the sound card was
initialized, my speckers barked (that never happened before). So I thought
YAH it's going to work. When I tried my CD player, however, it did not work.
But I remembered the aumix 'mute all' problem. So I ran aumix (which would
never run before), unchecked 'mute all', adjusted settings to midrange. Now
I have sound!!!
Although I did not use isapnp, it did allow me to find the correct driver. So
thanks a lot for your suggestion.
mike
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 04:16 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
You're using an ISA PnP card? I have two ISA sound cards on the home PC,
none of which was correctly set up by MDK, I had to do some manual work.
From what I understood the card is detected by the kernel at boot (you
see a message in the syslog) but not configured or activated. To do this
you need to install the isapnp tools. pnpdump scans your ISA bus and
prints to stdout a possible configuration file for your card. You edit
this file selecting less /etc/modules.conf | soundthe settings you need,
then feed it to isapnp which
configures and activates the card.
Now you can load the kernel drivers with insmod snd-cs4232. If you don't
do the isapnp step, the insmod will fail.
You can check if it worked with cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat (or
something like that), it should show the soundcard status.
I'm by no means an expert, so I cannot guarantee it will work for you
like it did for me.less /etc/modules.conf | sound
good luck,
raffaele
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On Monday 24 November 2003 07:14 pm, Mike Adolf wrote:
***
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no file or directory)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
***
I have no sound from CD player. Just to get information, I started the
sound server. A reboot then gives the above message. It is probably the
same reason my CD doesn't work?? It sounds like there is no sound
driver, but harddrake says there is. A driver is also initialized in
boot log.
mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] madolf]
More information: The sound module doesn't seem to be there!
#less /etc/modules.conf | grep sound
alias sound-slot-0 snd-cs4232
# /sbin/lsmod | grep snd-cs4232
nothing??
# /sbin/lsmod (shows)
snd40868 0
mike
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