I was running a redhat 6.1 on a Gateway2000 9100 solo laptop with a
Yamaha OPL3-SAx soundcard, and when I had 5.2 on the box the soundcard
would not work, but once I put 6.1 on, bink, it configured automatically
and worked like a charm. Monday I tried to upgrade to 6.2 but the
installer fatally crashed by boot sector and I had to reinstall from the
ground up. After 2 days of 6.2 still failing, I switched to Mandrake
7.1
that is the history, here is the problem: I can not get the soundcard
to work at all. The default sounddrake that ships with the 7.1 CD does
not have a SAx option, and the SA2 card fails. One error I get is that
the device is busy or missing, and insmod fails. I upgraded to the
newest versions of harddrake from the linux-mandrake.com website
(sounddrake-0.8.1-4mdk and associated rpms, plus alsa-2.2.16_0.5.7-9mdk)
and my soundcard is listed but plays no sound during the "test" phase (I
do get midi sound however). Reading through the alsa website HOWTO, it
describes a painful procedure to manually configure the card in the
conf.modules. pnpdump does not find any PnP cards, isapnp doesn't seem
to work, and even manually specifying the io, dma etc... in insmod
doesn't work. I've tried hard-compiling the card into my kernel, no
sound. I've used sndconfig and tried a lot of combinations, no sound.
I can get a blurp that sounds like "hello" from sndconfig using a
Soundblaster card.
so I had a perfectly working and correctly recognized OPL3-SAx under
redhat 6.1, and with Mandrake 7.1 I seem to have nothing but headaches.
Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
thanks and cheers!
-ben
