Hi guys, I have been struggling to get my sound card working with Mandrake 7.1. This sound card is on board and is part of the Southbridge (Via 82c686). This particular chip is reported to be supported. What I believe is the problem is IRQ sharing. This card is sharing IRQs (IRQ 9) with the USB controller. Although there are quite a few IRQs vacant(like IRQ5), I dont know how to move the IRQ from 9 to 5 under Linux. Anyone with any help on this ? This is with stock 2.2.15 SMP kernel. Sometimes with 2.4.0test8 kernel I can get my sound card to work, but just barely. I can listen to Audio CDs. Change the volume using the mixer; but momemt I try to play a RealAudio clip, the sound gets all locked up and the first syllable keeps repeating. I also tried with the latest OSS files, after installing those(what a pain !!! told me Mandrake was not a supported kernel) I could play my audio cds fine but had problems with .ra files again. OSS actually warned me since the card was sharing IRQs there could be problems. So what is the solution here ? Can anyone help ? Anyone with any experience with the Redhat install ? Could you get sound working flawlessly ? I tried with both setting on the motherboard - Soundblaster mode on (part 1) and Soundblaster mode off (part 2). The boot.log messages from Part 1 and 2 are appended below. Any help is highly appreciated ! Thanks Sounak PART 1 ======= Sep 20 18:29:25 xxx rc.sysinit: Mounting loopback filesystems succeeded Sep 20 18:29:25 xxx rc.sysinit: Turning on user and group quotas for local filesystems succeeded Sep 20 18:29:25 xxx rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space succeeded ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o failed Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx sound: Loading sound module (via82cxxx) failed Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: insmod via82cxxx failed Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager Sessions succeeded Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx kudzu: succeeded Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o failed Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: insmod via82cxxx failed Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx sound: Loading sound module (via82cxxx) failed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Sep 20 18:29:47 xxx sysctl: error: 'net.ipv4.tcp_timestamp' is an unknown key Sep 20 18:29:47 xxx network: Setting network parameters succeeded ============================================================================ ====== PART 2 ======= Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx kudzu: succeeded ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o failed Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o: insmod via82cxxx failed Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx sound: Loading sound module (via82cxxx) failed --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 20 18:48:03 xxx sysctl: error: 'net.ipv4.tcp_timestamp' is an unknown key Sep 20 18:48:03 xxx network: Setting network parameters succeeded
