> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cooker-owner@linux-
> mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Robby Stephenson
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:47 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Cooker] sound card problems, audioexcel 515M
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using beta4, and I just got a sound card to go in my newly
assembly
> computer. I ended up buying a cheap one, but I figured it'd be ok
since the
> box said "linux supported". It's an audio excel av515m, using the
c-media
> 8738 6-ch chipset. It came with a cmpci driver, but that's also part
of the
> kernel, looks like. But anyway, I also saw that it is supported by
alsa
> using the snd-card-cmipci driver. Trouble is, I can't get anything to
work.
> Something's screwy with devfs.
>
> I've got nothing in /dev/sound. There's no /dev/snd or /dev/asound,
which I
> thought would be there for alsa. There's no /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer
which are
> old oss holdouts, I believe.
>
> DrakConf doesn't recognize that I have a sound card. It throws up four
"Via
> Technologies Unknown" lines under "Other Devices" in the hardware
section,
> along with another "Unknown". It says to send the /proc/bus/* files to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] which I can do, but I wanted to check with
the
> cooker list first. In the /proc/bus/pci directory, I have a devices
file,
> and two directories, 00, and 01. The only other pci device I have is a
> netword card which is correctly identified. The 01 directory is nearly
empty
> with only a 00.0 "file". The 00 directory has several.
>
> Anyone have any ideas/suggestions? Should I be manually modifying the
> /modules.conf file?
>
Sure.
cat >> /etc/modules.conf
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cmipci
^D
and reboot.
If it does not work it means this card is not supported by this driver.
> Oh, another thing, why does harddrake
forget harddrake. You may want search for harddrake in archives and then
you understand why.
-andrej
