I'm having trouble with my Diamond Wavetable sound card (Opti Audio 16). I think it's an ISA PnP card. It's giving me problems at boot time (abort, stack trace) and of course I don't have working sound.
I tried commenting out the install lines with snd-opti* in them in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base. Before doing that, the boot sequence would stop until I pressed ^C, and I would have really horrible garbled sound. After doing that the boot sequence continues after complaining about '/bin/sh' aborting (don't know where to find that message; it's not a kernel message) and I get no sound at all. I've attached my kernel messages. They're pretty similar regardless of whether or not I do the modprobe thing.
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