First of all, please excuse if I seem frustrated, I'm at the pulling my hair out stage! ;) I installed Potato and then upgraded everything (I think) to Woody. I have been using RH for the last year before this adventure started. I'm having a lot of trouble getting my sound card to work. It is an ISA Soundblaster AWE 64 PnP. I tried to use my familiar redhat tools and got sndconfig. This worked like a charm on redhat, but no luck on Debian. I think I'm having trouble with my modules, but I don't know what. When I boot up I get the message:
modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep I'm not sure what that means, I've read about other people who seemed to fix it by doing a depmod -a, but that did nothing for me. I also tried touching it, but that did nothing either. isapnp seemingly runs without warnings, but when I try to insmod sb I get: Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters In my /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep I have: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/adlib_card.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o \ /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/opl3.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/awe_wave.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/opl3.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o \ /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/uart401.o \ /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundcore.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundlow.o \ /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundcore.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundcore.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundlow.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/uart401.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o In my /etc/modules.conf I have: (all this was put there by sndconfig, but it looks right to me and I know the options being passed to sb are right because those are the same I had on my last install) alias sound-slot-0 sb options sound dmabuf=1 options opl3 io=0x388 alias midi awe_wave post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 My /usr/src/linux/.config sound sections looks like: # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=m # CONFIG_SOUND_CS4281 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_FUSION is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ICH is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m # CONFIG_SOUND_PAS is not set CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m # CONFIG_SOUND_GUS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_PSS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAD16 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_WAVEFRONT is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAUI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SGALAXY is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS is not set CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m # CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_NM256 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_YMPCI is not set # # Additional low level sound drivers # CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y # CONFIG_ACI_MIXER is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_MSP3400 is not set CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=m I have probably gone overboard with the file info here, but I'm out of ideas. Hoping someone has some. Does anyone actually have a SB AWE 64 ISA PnP card running under Potato or Woody? Thanks a lot. -Jeff