Linux-Hardware Digest #401, Volume #12 Sat, 4 Mar 00 11:13:03 EST
Contents:
kernel settings for ESS1868? (Ivan Martinez)
Re: Binary compatibility ("Barry Kiernan")
PCI nics ("Wm. Lobb")
?? Ethernet card help.... :o (Fairway Fatty)
Re: E-tech 56K PCI modem won't work under Red Hat 6.0 (Rob Clark)
Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system? (Pas Moi)
Help....MS IntelliEye Mouse (Fairway Fatty)
ATI All-in-Wonder 128 questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 3com network cards and 440BX (Filippo)
Re: Recompiling linux kernel and printer setup (Greg Nedel)
CDrecord problem (Filippo)
Re: PCI nics (Ben Low)
RAID Device Driver in Linux. (Vasudevan)
HP 720C and Redhat 6.1 ("Korneel Thijs")
Re: hard-drive recording in linux?? (John Rhoades)
Re: HP 720C and Redhat 6.1 (Andre Rueter)
Re: Intel Create & Share Camera Pack (USB) under linux? (Rod Smith)
Best sound card for Linux? (lf11 at @linuxstart.com)
Re: 4 Celeron motherboard? (Atle)
Re: 4 Celeron motherboard? (Atle)
Sound Card problems - Aztech Multimedia Pro 16AB (Kieran Tully)
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From: Ivan Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel settings for ESS1868?
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:31:52 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello.
It seems that I have an ESS1868 sound card, but not its manuals. I
can't make kernel detect it. Which are the right settings?. Thank you.
--
Ivan Martinez (Rodriguez)
Bch in Computer Science - MSc student
http://www.student.dtu.dk/~u990873
"Got fabes?"
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From: "Barry Kiernan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Binary compatibility
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:06:37 -0000
First off, thanks for the reply. It was very informative. Just one query
though.
David C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Barry Kiernan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 2. Even on the same platform (e.g win95) the object code generated
> > from one source (C say) doesn't work with object code from another
> > source (pascal for instance). Why not?
>
> While the instruction to add two 32-bit memory locations together may be
> identical, the system calls used are completely different.
Surely you don't mean that a Pascal program gets memory from the OS using
one system call while a C program gets memory using another? The OS supplies
one mechanism for allocating memory to user programs; each compiler on that
platform maps to that system call, whatever form the syntax may take in the
source language.
Barry.
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From: "Wm. Lobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: PCI nics
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:19:34 GMT
Hello:
I'm sure this question has been asked before, I am sorry.
I have 2 3Com PCI 3C509B NIC's installed in this machine. I have read that
you need to specify IO and INT for each NIC when you are using 2 i.e.,
ether= XX, XX, eth0 ether=XX, XX eth1
My question is with PCI nics you cannot specify the IO and INT. they are
assigned by the BIOS. Do you just use a line like:
ether= eth0 ether=eth1 ? to tell the kernel that there are 2 nic's? I have
not had much luck getting this to work. I am missing something.
Thank You.
Bill
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From: Fairway Fatty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: ?? Ethernet card help.... :o
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:26:10 GMT
Im running RH6.1 and at initial install it seemed all hardware loaded in
cluding my Nic card without probs. I couldnt seem to get my linux
partition to recognize my home network or my network printer so i
started messin with the network settings in Gnome interface.......any
way now when i reboot during the load ethernet0 always "fails" where it
used to load fine although icouldnt get it thru to anybody....... where
and what is the command to reconfig network adapter where can i find
some good help info on cofigging my home lan with linux. this machine
is multipartitoned with NT, 98 and Linux and i access the lan/printer
with NT or 98 no problem. Another question i'll drop in here - im a
rookie (doh!)..... and im running X windows with Gnome.........I
d'loaded KDE....... if i install KDE can i still run Gnome...... and is
there any difference?
Thanks, FF
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Subject: Re: E-tech 56K PCI modem won't work under Red Hat 6.0
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:24:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jmol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I'm having diffuculties getting my E-tech PCI56RVP modem (interal,PCI)
>running under Red Hat 6.0.
It's a Rockwell chipset software modem. It will not work without the
Windows software that came with it. Sorry :(
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html <-- Linux/modem compat. list
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system?
From: Pas Moi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:32:30 GMT
>> "GW" == Gerald Willmann wrote on Fri, 3 Mar 2000 07:42:14 -0800:
GW> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Steve Snyder wrote:
>> I will soon be setting up a couple of Linux systems with faily
>> complex partitioning schemes. Naturally, I thought of PowerQuest's
>> PartitionMagic (PM), which I've never used but which is highly
>> regarded. I know that PM supports the ext2 filesystem, but
>> PowerQuest's Web site also says that the software is shipped on a
>> "Win32 CD". How does one use PM on an all-Linux, no Win32 system?
>> Do/can you run it from a DOS-formatted boot diskette? Any advice
>> on using PM on an all-Linux system would be appreciated.
GW> what's wrong with linux fdisk ??? Honestly don't see why you would
GW> need anything else especially on all-linux systems. Gerald --
there's also gnu parted. so that makes it doubly odd.
ciao
--
Guy Yasko -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NATHAN ... your PARENTS were in a CARCRASH!! They're VOIDED -- They
COLLAPSED They had no CHAINSAWS ... They had no MONEY MACHINES ... They
did PILLS in SKIMPY GRASS SKIRTS ... Nathan, I EMULATED them ... but
they were OFF-KEY ...
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From: Fairway Fatty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Help....MS IntelliEye Mouse
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:36:23 GMT
I still cant seem to get my MS intellimouse (3 buton scroll wheel type)
to work in linux...... what the heck do i need to do or where can i find
an answer...? Theres got to be somebody out there who knoews..!!
Thanks Fatty in the Fairway!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: ATI All-in-Wonder 128 questions
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:40:25 GMT
I just got a ATI All-in-Wonder 128 (16meg) board to play with on my SuSE
6.1 (6.4 as soon as it's out) box and I have a few questions:
Does Xi have a server that works with this board? I checked out the
page at http://www.xig.com/Pages/3D-LGD-List.html . It's listed, but
no link?? Hopefully this means "soon"? Would one of the Rage Fury
drivers work or is it a different chip?
How about GL support? (Ha! I know, dream on. ;)
Anyone know of any tips for performance tweaking in XFree 3.3.6? I had
to use the "no_accel" option in XF86Config because otherwise the text in
menus and xterms kept getting garbled. Is this normal?
Is the support in 3.9.? any better? I might be tempted to tackle
installing that if anyone else has good things to say about it, but it's
a bit of trouble I'd rather not get into otherwise. 4.0 will be out
soon enough. :)
TIA,
- John
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From: Filippo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3com network cards and 440BX
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:44:54 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:25:02 +0000, Joel Phillips
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I've been trying for a few days to get a P2 440BX chipset to work with 2
> >different 3com network cards, one 3c509 and one 3c90x (both used as
> >10BaseT). I've tried with RedHat 6.0 and Mandrake 6.1, both of which
> >detect the card, but neither of which are able to use it - I can't ping
> >other computers on the network etc.
>
I had similar problems with a ASUS p3BF motherboard, with two network
cards installed. It went ok when I put all the cards next to each other
in the slots...
--
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other
people.
-- Lucille S. Harper
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From: Greg Nedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recompiling linux kernel and printer setup
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 08:55:30 -0500
fail006 wrote:
> Hi
> I am currently running redhat 6.1 on my pentium machine.
> I would like to know how can i setup my printer in linux. I have a HPdeskjet
> 710c. I tried that graphical printer tool but it tells me that there is no
> printer connected to my computer. I have my printer connected to lpt 1.
>
> My second question is that how can i recompile my kernel. I don't want to
> upgrade, i just want to recompile it so that i can burn CD's uing xcdroast
> program.
> Is there a graphical interface that i can use to recompile my kernel?
>
> Thanka allot.
Regarding the printer ... I had the same problem and here is what I did
Try these two commands:
insmod parport
insmod parport_pc
After issuing these commands, run the printer tool. The lp0 port should
show up as detected when you add a new local printer.
Regarding the kernel ...
Try this:
cd /usr/src/linux
make xconfig
After you make changes and save and exit, type (still in the /usr/src/linux
directory)
make dep
make clean
make install
To be safe, I copied my entire /boot directory to a new directory called
/boot.sav. Then I added an entry in the /etc/lilo.conf file that would allow
me to boot either of the kernels (in /boot or /boot.sav). The /boot.sav kernel
is the original kernel that installed with the new system and I know it works.
When you do the 'make install', it will put the newly created kernel in the
/boot directory. If the new kernel does not work for any reason, you can use
old one since you saved it, although I never had any problems with my new
kernels. Also, read the help to the right of each kernel option when doing the
'make xconfig'. I found it very useful.
Greg Nedel
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From: Filippo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDrecord problem
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:58:33 GMT
Here's the machine
pIII 500
256 Mb RAM
SCSI controller 2940U2W adaptec
2 Ultra2wide IBM HD 9,1 and 18 Gb (on a u2w cable)
1 Plextor 40x Cd drive (internally connected)
1 Yamaha cde100 II SCSI CDwriter (externally connected to the same cable
of the CD and terminated)
I can happily duplicate CDs (with cdrdao copy on the fly), but I often
miss the HD to CD backup, with a problem related with buffer underrun
(from the cdrecord messages). Looks like there is bug in cdrecord (v
1.8a40 debian), or a hardware problem in the SCSI hostadapter. This is
alot weird, if you look at the kind of machine.
SCSI ID are: 1 and 2 for the HDs, 5 for the writer, 6 for the reader.
Should I put the highest SCSI ID on the terminated device (boh?).
Any advices? Or should I simply buy a newer HP 8x writer (hehe)?
--
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other
people.
-- Lucille S. Harper
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From: Ben Low <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PCI nics
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 14:06:18 GMT
In article <G38w4.223$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Wm. Lobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have 2 3Com PCI 3C509B NIC's installed in this machine. I have read
that
> you need to specify IO and INT for each NIC when you are using 2 i.e.,
> ether= XX, XX, eth0 ether=XX, XX eth1
>
> My question is with PCI nics you cannot specify the IO and INT. they
are
> assigned by the BIOS. Do you just use a line like:
As you note, a non-PnP operating system (i.e. linux) does not normally
assign IRQs and such, the BIOS does. However, you do need to tell the
o/s what the BIOS assigned: when you load the modules / build the
kernel, you need to specify the IRQ, etc that the BIOS assigned.
As to how you find out just what the bios did assign: often it's listed
in the 'DPMI' list at boot, or perhaps you can get/set it in the BIOS
config.
You may find the isapnp tools of use, but I've not used them with a PCI
card. ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/linux/utils
--
b.d.low (at) unsw edu au
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Before you buy.
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From: Vasudevan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RAID Device Driver in Linux.
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 14:49:39 GMT
Hi All Linux Gurus,
I have been assigned the task of writing a RAID driver for a PCI IDE
RAID Controller card.
I initially thought I could go thro the md RAID source code in Linux
and try to get to know about block device drivers in general and md in
particular.
But before that, I would like to know a general overview of the
organisation of the code in the Linux kernel and how the request for
data flows in the driver.
I would like to know where exactly (the function) in md the request for
data is getting into and where exactly (the function) it is dispatched
to the drives.
OR any information as to the general organisation of the IDE driver
will also be helpful for me.
Please help me out in this endeavor to make another product Linux
Ready.!!!
Thanks in advance,
Vasudevan.
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Before you buy.
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From: "Korneel Thijs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP 720C and Redhat 6.1
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 15:11:56 GMT
I have a Hp Deskjet 720C, and I would like to print under RH 6.1
Where do I find a driver?
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From: John Rhoades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hard-drive recording in linux??
Date: 04 Mar 2000 15:14:27 +0000
From: Bryan <Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>the zefiro za2 (zefiro.com) is supported in SOURCE CODE form.
>but not every mobo can support the dma needs of this special card (its isa).
>but its the only good REAL pro soundcard that has linux support, fwiw.
The RME 9652 (Hammerfall) also works with Linux (using ALSA), but the
driver isn't fully finished.
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From: Andre Rueter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 720C and Redhat 6.1
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 16:19:56 +0100
the only i know is that it is actually only possible to print b/w on a
hp720.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Intel Create & Share Camera Pack (USB) under linux?
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 15:32:21 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christian J�nsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I got me this fun web cam, an Intel Create & Share Camera Pack,
> that is a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device. Now, It works pretty
> well under Windows 98, from what I have tried, and now I wonder
> if there might be something going on in the linux community concerning
> this device.
>
> I have a Red Hat Linux 6.1/Intel system with a recent development
> kernel (2.3.49). I'd like to test things with this USB device under
> linux.
Check http://www.linux-usb.org. They've got a searchable listing of USB
devices. It's incomplete, but if you're lucky, the Intel webcam may be in
there. If not, you can try each of the existing webcam drivers in turn in
hopes that one of them works, or use some USB diagnostic software to
figure out what sort of chipset the device uses. (I hooked up my Creative
Labs Webcam 3 to an iMac and used its USB resource browser to figure out
that it uses the OV511 chipset, which has preliminary support in Linux.)
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: lf11 at @linuxstart.com
Subject: Best sound card for Linux?
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 11:03:58 -0500
My wrists are beginning to ache from typing, and I'm hoping to take some of the data
input load off my hands. Thus, voice recognition to dictate long documents and
scripts instead of typing.
My current sound card, a Creative Sound Blaster ViBRA, runs fine as a SB 16 PnP, but
it will not record 16-bit sound. 8-bit, yes, but it seems that there are two 8-bit
DMA channels, instead of one 8-bit and one 16-bit. I'm using the Linux kernel
drivers, because I have not discovered if ALSA supports 16-bit recording for this card.
Thus, I'd like to purchase a new sound card. Hopefully less than $50. I'd like it to
support full duplex, but that's not necessary for now. It must be able to record and
play back 16-bit, medium- to high-quality sound under Linux.
Could you describe your experiences with good (or bad) sound cards?
Thank you!
-lf
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From: Atle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4 Celeron motherboard?
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 18:39:56 +0100
"David C." wrote:
>
> I know it's possible for large scale SMP to work reliably. Sun systems
> do this all the time. For instance, their Enterprise 10000 server
> supports up to 64 UltraSPARC processors (at 250, 336, or 400MHz). I've
> never heard of one of these having stability problems like you describe.
Who knows what patches would be necessary for Linux to take advantage
(and not crash!) with a 'new' PC system that would support a hybrid mix
of x86es, PowerPCs and the like?
I know at least one such 'supermicro' from the past (the CompuPro) and
it would be so nice to see something like that again ...
Atle
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From: Atle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4 Celeron motherboard?
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 18:49:48 +0100
"David C." wrote:
>
>
> But these kinds of problems don't happen from abberant user code. Only
> broken kernel code can cause this kind of problem - and there's no way
> to protect a system against broken kernel code if the hardware is SMP.
> (Yes, you could go microkernel, but even then, broken microkernel code
> can cause the same problems.)
Seems like people don't like to have broken kernels around ...
especially in the Linux community.
And a kernel (and even more a microkernel) is a program that is very
well specified ... so there is never any chance that a bug becomes a
feature, not that I have heard of anyway. What I'm trying to say is that
once a multiprocessor system becomes available, I have full confidence
that Linux will support it well (imagine the fun in building support for
a 8 Athlon system!!!)
I just hope someone will build one ...
Now it seems I have the choice betwwen an Abit 2 Celeron board, or a 2 X
PII PIII? board with an incorporated SCSI.
I have had someone tell me about the Abit board, but nobody have told me
about any alternative.
Does anyone run Linux on anything other than the 2 Celeron Abit board?
Please tell me about it!
And: What is rthe most powerful x86-based Linux machine available today?
Is there a 2xP3 or 2xAthlon being tested anywhere?
Atle
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From: Kieran Tully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Card problems - Aztech Multimedia Pro 16AB
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 16:07:59 +0000
Hi all,
I'm having a problem getting my sound card to work on Linux with
ALSA sound.
Computer: Intel P133 (Baby-AT Intel motherboard; Triton chipset),
4Gb HD (Maxtor 84000A6), 80Mb RAM (+40Mb swap)
Linux: 2.2.5 Kernel, RedHat 6.0 distro
Kernel settings: "Sound card support" compiled in, but all other
sound stuff disabled - is this right?
(I am running my re-compiled kernel. I initially had
other std. kernel sound modules compiled; do I need to
remove these from the filesystem as well as the kernel?)
ALSA version: 0.5.2
Sound card: Aztech Multimedia 16AB (ISA 16bit, not PnP)
FCC-ID I28-MMSN824
Chipset is Analog Devices AD1845XP SoundPort
and Aztech AZT2316A (plus a Yamaha OPL chip)
Card works fine under Windows and DOS. Windows identifies it as an
Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16 so I've tried the "snd-card-sgalaxy"
driver (plus a few others) with the Windows settings (which are the same
as what the DOS config utility says they are.).
Has anyone got this card to work on Linux with ALSA or any other drivers?
The error message I get appears after my signature (below).
I had similar problems with the kernel sgalaxy sound driver (OSS-lite?)
which isn't surprising since "snd-card-sgalaxy" is based on that
(I did get the std kernel OPL-3 FM driver to work though, which is great
considering what I _need_ is duplex PCM :)
If it turns out I can't get it to work, I'll have to buy a new card that
will. Any recommendations?
Thanks for any help,
P.S. After my signature is some further configuration info from my
system.
|/ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|\ieran Home Page: http://www.csc.tcd.ie/~singers/kt
============ // . Computer Science Student, Trinity College Dublin
Kieran Tully \X/ AM|GA User. Sys-admin for http://ireland.seds.org
Windows: 9/10 burgulars prefer them.
My /etc/conf.modules file (just the sound stuff):
=================================================
#ALSA stuff
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sgalaxy
options snd-card-sgalaxy snd_index=0 snd_id="AztechSG" snd_sbport=0x220
snd_wssport=0x530 snd_irq=5 snd_dma1=1
# OSS/Free emulation
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
=================================================
/proc/modules after boot-up:
=================================================
nls_iso8859-1 2020 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3548 2 (autoclean)
vfat 11420 2 (autoclean)
fat 25344 2 (autoclean) [vfat]
sound 58380 0 (unused)
soundlow 300 0 [sound]
=================================================
No /proc/asound yet.
Running '/usr/src/alsa-driver/utils/alsasound start' gives:
=================================================
Starting sound driver: snd-card-sgalaxy snd: Sound Galaxy soundcard #1 not
found at 0x530 or device busy
snd: Sound Galaxy soundcard not found or device busy
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/snd-card-sgalaxy.o: init_module: Device or
resource busy
snd-mixer: Device or resource busy
done
alsactl: Cannot open configuration file '/etc/asound.conf'...
=================================================
and extra lines appear in /proc/modules as follows:
=================================================
snd-ad1848 10660 0
snd-mixer 27696 0 [snd-ad1848]
snd-pcm 28984 0 [snd-ad1848]
snd-timer 8416 0 [snd-pcm]
snd 32992 0 [snd-ad1848 snd-mixer snd-pcm snd-timer]
=================================================
/proc/asound exists at this stage, but everything appears to be empty.
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