On Mon, 7 May 2001, John Wolford wrote:
> I saw your original post but i didn't see any replies. What was the advice you
> received, and what does installing it "the old way" mean?
The advice was to forget about using Harddrake.
In this case the old way meant to:
-- pnpdump the card and put the result in /etc/isapnp.conf, uncommenting the
appropriate parts. I had already done this before (Red Hat 6) so I just got
the file from my backup.
-- put the appropriate alias and options lines in /etc/modules.conf (also
already in my backup; it was called conf.modules before)
-- run isapnp on startup. This should be automatically done already (I think
it's in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit).
-- modprobe the soundcard on startup. /etc/init.d/sound will automatically
modprobe anything named "sound" or "midi". (It didn't do the FM chip in
the soundcard, so I had to add a line to do that, or I could have put it in
/etc/modules.)
It also turned out that on my soundcard, I had to isapnp *immediately* before
modprobe or it wouldn't work, which meant modifying /etc/init.d/sound a bit,
but you probably won't need to do that.
I haven't tried using ALSA yet.
