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On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Shanna wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I have a question regarding the set up of a soundblaster 16 sound card.
I'm pretty sure this is an ISA card, and not a PCI card, right? There
could be a few things that you need to do. The first thing you should
check out is your BIOS settings... look for options that say
"Plug-and-Play OS" and set to NO. Also look for a setting that says
something like "reset ESCD" or "reset Extended Configuration blah blah"
and set that to NO if it isn't.
After you do this, reboot to windows and double-check the card settings
(even if you're sure of them, because this will set up the card properly).
Then reboot to Linux. When you reboot to Linux, you'll want to re-run
sndconfig, but first you need to remove any sound modules that are already
inserted.
You can find out what sound modules are loaded using the lsmod command,
and you can remove them using the rmmod command, but you need to do it in
the right order.
[ddm@luna derek]
$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
maestro 25152 1
3c575_cb 19296 2
cb_enabler 2576 2 [3c575_cb]
ds 6736 2 [cb_enabler]
i82365 29872 2
pcmcia_core 51264 0 [cb_enabler ds i82365]
nls_iso8859-1 2288 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3792 1 (autoclean)
vfat 9472 1 (autoclean)
fat 30912 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
soundcore 2704 2 (autoclean) [maestro]
Here you can see I have the soundcore module loaded, and it's being used
by the maestro module. In my case, that's all I'd need to remove (first
maestro, then soundcore), but with the SB cards you'll probably need to
get rid of more than that. Look at the "by" column (the last one) and
that will tell you what modules are using the soundcore module. There may
be multiple levels of dependencies (i.e. you might have soundlow, which
uses soundcore, and then you might have opl3, which uses soundlow).
These examples that I give are probably bogus (I haven't used an old SB
card in quite some time now), but they should illustrate the idea.
Find those modules, remove them all, and then re-run sndconfig.
Alternately, rather than trying to remove all the modules after they've
been loaded at boot time, you can just edit /etc/conf.modules or
/etc/modules.conf (whichever one you have, probably the first one on
redhat systems) and remove any mention of sound modules before you reboot,
and then the next time you boot linux you should not have any sound
modules loaded.
If that doesn't help, you may have to get the card set up using the isapnp
tools, but I've never had to do that with any of the PnP SB cards I've had
in the past.
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Was it just imagination stringing us along?
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