At some point several days ago a perfectly functioning L-M 6.1, with
AWE32
ceased to function. As frequently happens I assumed it was only a
permission problem. Many of you helped me out and offered many ideas
and suggestion.
I very much appreciate your help.!!!
Permissions were only part of it.
At some point the /etc/isapnp.conf was corrupted
I have no idea how or why this happened. reboot gave me new strange
dmesg errors
Re: Sound and isapnp.conf errors.
Bizarre uncommented lines whcih should have been commented out appeared.
Commenting these back out and rebooting (There is a way to do this
without always rebooting but I never remember), FINALLY at least gave me
sound in root.
Now we get to the permissions probs and PAM but thats another post!
I still get a "SB16: Bad or missing 16 bit DMA channel" which was never
there
before but at least Sound was back.
If anyone can shed any Light on this one it would be appreciated. This
has NEVER
happened in several years of Linux stumbling :-) (with a variety of Snd
Cards)
What would cause isapnp.conf to change unbeknownst to me?
William Bouterse
Juneau, Alaska
