[Arun Sreelalan]

In regard to my sound card problem (ISA YAMAHA OPL3-SA3), you asked me
to open up the card and find the details. What do you exactly mean? I cant open
up the hardware chip itself, it would get damaged. From Windows, I found the
following information about my card :-

I/O Range - 0220 - 022F
0530 - 0537
0388 - 038B
0330 - 0331
0370 - 0371

IRQ 05
DMA 00
DMA 01

In Linux, when I run 'sndconfig', after detecting my card, it asks me to select
one of the following combinations (dip switches) :-

I/O PORT (0x530, 0x534, 0x604, 0xe80, 0xf40) Default selected 0x530
IRQ (5,7,9,10,11) Default selected 5
DMA 1 (0,1,3) Default selected 1
DMA 2 (0,1,3) Default selected 0

I selected the following combination :-

I/O PORT 0x530
IRQ 5
DMA 1 0
DMA 2 1

When I start my machine, after the memory test, when the slot details are
displayed, it reports :
ISA/PnP DEVICES

CARD NO. 1
DEVICE NO. 3
IRQ 11
DMA 0,0
NAME OPL3-SA3 Sound Board

All the three tables seem contradictory! Which combo do I choose?

Also regardless of whichever one I choose, when 'sndconfig' tries to play a
sample sound, it bungs an error saying that it could not open /dev/audio. I
found that even the root did not have r/w/x permssions to this file, so I
changed the permissions to r/w/x for everybody. But still the same error pops
up every time. I dont have the documentation for my card, and I cant find it on
the Net. Please dont ask me to get rid of Red Hat and switch over to Mandrake. Can you tell me if there is any graphical config util in RH8.
I'm a C++ programmer, but because of permission denials and other such trifling problems as these, I cant get productive in linux, so plz help me out.



Arun Sreelalan
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