I am having a problem with my sound. card (Sound Balster AWE64). I tried to upgrade my Mandrake 7.1 system using packages from Mandrake Cooker a few weeks ago. After a reboot, I found that my sound card no longer worked. There's nothing wrong with my card -- it works fine in Win2000. I believe that what I installed may have somehow wrecked the settings. Here's a list of the packages of what I installed: BitchX-75p3-12mdk.i586.rpm linux_logo-3.05-3mdk.i586.rpm Device3Dfx-2.3.4-7mdk.i586.rpm linuxconf-1.18-4mdk.i586.rpm GXedit-1.23-5mdk.i586.rpm locales-2.3-7mdk.noarch.rpm alsa-2.2.16_0.5.7-9mdk.i586.rpm locales-en-2.3-7mdk.noarch.rpm chkconfig-1.2.7-2mdk.i586.rpm make-3.79.1-5mdk.i586.rpm chkfontpath-1.7-3mdk.i586.rpm man-1.5h1-5mdk.i586.rpm cups-1.1.2-11mdk.i586.rpm man-pages-1.31-1mdk.noarch.rpm dosfstools-2.4-3mdk.i586.rpm modutils-2.3.15-1mdk.i586.rpm drakfont-0.52-2mdk.i586.rpm mount-2.10o-1mdk.i586.rpm esound-0.2.19-6mdk.i586.rpm mpage-2.5.1-12mdk.i586.rpm g-print-0.2-7mdk.i586.rpm mpg123-0.59r-12mdk.i586.rpm gedit-0.9.0-2mdk.i586.rpm mtools-3.9.7-3mdk.i586.rpm gftp-2.0.7b-1mdk.i586.rpm netscape-common-4.75-3mdk.i586.rpm ggv-0.95-2mdk.i586.rpm netscape-navigator-4.75-3mdk.i586.rpm gqview-0.8.2-4mdk.i586.rpm pam-0.72-7mdk.i586.rpm gtkhtml-0.5-3mdk.i586.rpm playmidi-2.4-15mdk.i586.rpm gurpmi-0.6-5mdk.i586.rpm ppp-2.4.0-1mdk.i586.rpm imwheel-0.9.8-4mdk.i586.rpm rxvt-2.6.1-9mdk.i586.rpm jed-B0.99.11-4mdk.i586.rpm sh-utils-2.0-11mdk.i586.rpm jed-common-B0.99.11-4mdk.i586.rpm sndconfig-0.44-12mdk.i586.rpm kups-0.8-1mdk.i586.rpm svgalib-1.4.1-6mdk.i586.rpm lha-1.14f-3mdk.i586.rpm switchdesk-2.1-4mdk.i586.rpm libc-5.3.12-34mdk.i586.rpm switchdesk-gnome-2.1-4mdk.i586.rpm libgtop-1.0.9-4mdk.i586.rpm switchdesk-kde-2.1-4mdk.i586.rpm libjpeg-6b-15mdk.i586.rpm symlinks-1.2-10mdk.i586.rpm libmikmod-3.1.9-2mdk.i586.rpm time-1.7-16mdk.i586.rpm libpng-1.0.8-2mdk.i586.rpm timeconfig-3.0.2-8mdk.i586.rpm libsigc++-1.0.1-3mdk.i586.rpm timetool-2.7-4mdk.noarch.rpm libstdc++-2.95.2-10mdk.i586.rpm tree-1.3-3mdk.i586.rpm libstdc++-compat-2.95.2-10mdk.i586.rpm unarj-2.43-13mdk.i586.rpm libtiff-3.5.5-2mdk.i586.rpm unzip-5.41-3mdk.i586.rpm libungif-4.1.0-7mdk.i586.rpm urw-fonts-1.1-11mdk.noarch.rpm libxml-1.8.9-3mdk.i586.rpm wget-1.5.3-12mdk.i586.rpm Upon rebooting, gmix (the GNOME mixer, which I run at startup) told me (and continues to tell me whenever I start GNOME) that it souldn't find the mixer settings. It then suggested to check if sound support was compiled into the kernel. I figured that since sound worked before and I had not done a kernel recompile (besides, sound was always loaded as a module) this was not the problem. I tried running Mandrake's Lothar Soundconfig, but this didn't help (not that it did before). Red Hat's sndconfig, which had brought my card to life in the past, only gave me an error, saying that modutils (which as you can see above I had replaced) was reading from one file (I think /etc/conf.modules) instead of another (I think /etc/modules.conf). I then tried replacing modutils with a version from Red Hat 6.2, and then one from my Mandrake 7.0 CD. I even tried uninstalling Alsa. These did not help at all, and at startup I always get the same errors: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: dsp reset failed. <SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM512k)> When I try "insmod sound" at a console (as root) I get the error: /lib/modules/2.2.16-9mdk/misc/sound.o: a module named sound already exists And when I try "insmod sb" I get: /lib/modules/2.2.16-9mdk/misc/sb.o: unresolved symbol probe_uart401_R6467f99b /lib/modules/2.2.16-9mdk/misc/sb.o: unresolved symbol unload_uart401_Recfdd9c9 /lib/modules/2.2.16-9mdk/misc/sb.o: unresolved symbol uart401intr_R6391d066 /lib/modules/2.2.16-9mdk/misc/sb.o: unresolved symbol attach_uart401_R45af1327 I have also been told by Linux that /dev/dsp is not a device, when I know that it had represented the sound card before this all happened. If anyone can help me find a solution to this problem I would be much obliged. -- _____________________________________________________________________ Sridhar Dhanapalan Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! _____________________________________________________________________