Harry Flaxman wrote:
>
> I have a Soundblaster PCI 512. The device won't init during the Linux
> IPL process. Says the device is busy. Yes, I see my sound card listed in
> /etc/conf.modules. I was assuming there is a lock file for the device. The
> configurator, soundconfig won't do anything with it either, says it's busy.
>
Your problem is not with lock files. If the module (sound driver) is not
correct, then often it gives this error.
I have a PCI 128 and I couldn't get it to work with the default ens1371
driver. The driver dosn't work properly with new Creative PCI (128, 256
etc) cards. The best option for you is to download the Alsa sound drivers
from www.alsa-sound.org and install them. Installing them is a little bit
pain.. but the end result it that it works!!! I wonder why we're still
using OSS when Alsa is so much better!
-sarang
