Thanks for the feedback. I had done what you are suggesting a long time ago. It caused the card to make sound, but it didn't enable all the features. I then continued to dig and discovered that I couldn't get anything to work. It's kind of like a story I read on the album cover of Al Di Meola's Splendito Hotel. There was a flame that had been burning for centuries in a cave in Iran. Some scientist wanted to figure out what made it burn so they extinguished it in order to investigate further. They could never get to burn again. I broke down and bought oss. My sound card works like a charm now. (Thanks Dee!) I really wanted to get this working w/o buying oss. Not that I am opposed to paying people for hard work, but I wanted to figure it out. All I succeeded in doing is finding that there is a whole bunch of stuff I don't know about Linux. These things can be very complicated. I spent at least 30 hours trying to fix a $30 problem. I did learn that I don't understand modules and PnP. There's got to be a way to get a handle on this OS. Perhaps it is by spending 30 hours on a $30 problem. :-/ Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I had almost the exact problems whith my soundcard, and this is how I made it > work (have a different card though). > I compiled the following as modules: 'soundcore', 'sound', 'uart401' & 'sb'. > Then I added these lines to 'conf.modules': > 'alias sound sb' > 'options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1' > To make the modules autoload, kerneld must be running, which I believe you can > set in YaST. Otherwise 'modprobe sound' should work. Whith this setup, my > soundmodules are loaded everytime the kernel needs them (e.g. when playing > mp3:s and so on), and when not needed they are removed automatically (after a > short period of time). > > Hope this helped. > (ps. before I got this to work, I had some stuff about PnP activated in BIOS > and this really messed things up, but thats a different story....) > > > How would I tell if the kmod is compiled into the kernel? It this is > > the > > same as the autoload modules (or whatever) option then I did select it. > > the > > following is the output from various commands: > > > > bash-2.02# insmod sound > > /lib/modules/2.2.1/misc/sound.o: a module named sound already exists > > > > bash-2.02# rmmod sound > > rmmod: sound is in use > > > > bash-2.02# ls /usr/X11R6/lib/xemacs-20.4/etc/sounds/long-beep.au | more > > /usr/X11R6/lib/xemacs-20.4/etc/sounds/long-beep.au > > > > SILENCE > > > > bash-2.02# cat /usr/X11R6/lib/xemacs-20.4/etc/sounds/shotgun.wav > >>/dev/audio > > bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device > > > > SILENCE > > > > Steve > > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://www10.calypso.net/ci-101635/ > Date: 24-Feb-99 > Time: 13:41:43 > > This message was sent by XFMail, > Powered by SuSE 6.0 > ---------------------------------- > - > To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e > Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the > archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
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