Just as a note, in Red Hat/Mandrake systems, /etc/modules.conf is actually /etc/conf.modules. Also, the ESS 1868 is not neccessarily an Ensonique card. The ESS 1868 is made by the people at http://www.esstech.com/. ESS Technology != Ensonique. Good luck! Don Head Linux Mentor Wave Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] [AIM - Don Wave][ICQ - 18804935] [IRC - EFnet, #WaveTech, Don-Wave] -----Original Message----- From: CE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 7:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] Nobody can figure out why sndconfig hangs up on me James Helferty wrote: > Hi everyone. > > The lpr rpm in Mandrake 7.0 is buggy; no one but root may print!! (Note > that this same rpm is in the current Mandrake Cooker release, so I'm not > totally off-topic here. ;) > > In case anyone's interested in the error message (and hasn't read the > newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake recently) it's: > > lpr: cannot open printer description file > > ..when you type "lpr" on the commandline. I have high security-level > turned on, but I don't think this should be a problem. (And if it is, > why isn't it documented..?!?) > > I'm running Mandrake 7.0, the only distribution which will let me on the internet, but it joins all the other RH and Manrake distros after 5.2 in not configuring my ESS 1868 sound card. As far as I get is when It tells me what it is. If I'm in an xterm window, it just shuts off after I hit OK. If I'm at the consol, it gives me a blue screen and hangs there forever. As referenced above, RH 5.2 did configure this same sound card with no problems on the same machine. Here's the details: CTX Pentium MMX 233/64 DSL connection which works Audio Card is Ensoniqe ESS 1868 I tried suggestions from Linuxcare which didn't do anythng. Here's some of the stuff I was told that didn't do anything You can also try using the following command to install the sound module. #/sbin/modprobe sb I am not sure that the normal soundblaster setting will work, or at least they didn't with my ESS 18XX chipset. If that doesn't work try this. add the following line to /etc/modules.conf : options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 mpu_io=0x330 then do a: /sbin/modprobe -r sb I didn't find anything that was exactly /etc/modules.conf I look in the /etc from the xterm and even from pico, it isn't there. Why is this not working? Would it make a difference if I installed an "authentic" Soundblaster 16 sounc card? What can I do? Thanks CE
