I have pnp card OPL3SAX. With changing bios it works. Only pnpdump is to
be done for getting isapnp.conf and edit it as per dos/win9x setup.
Drivers with rh6.1 and suse6.3 works but for midi synthesizer. However
alsa drivers didn't work for me with a lot of p&c.
Sthitaprajna wrote:
>
> On 13 May 00, at 23:05, Ashish Vashishta wrote:
>
> > I am not able to configure my sound card under linux.When i run
> > sndconfig the system displays mine is PnP snd card so it tries auto
> > congfiguration.However it returns error message:
> > 1 /etc/isapnp.conf:47 Fatal IO range check attempted while
> > device activated.
> > 2 Error occured executing request <IORESCHECK> further action
> aborted
>
> A classic case!! Linux does not take very well to PnP cards. But
> you've ot to use the ard, right?? So try these
> 1. In your BIOS setup, disable PnP , ie, set the PnP option to no.
> Then boot Linux and configure the card using soundconfig or manually
> editing the config file. That should get things going.
> 2. I believe that u'll be dual booting ur system. So, when u start
> windows after this, u'll see that the bloody card won't work..coz PnP
> is disabled:). Dunno the work around here.
> 3. There's another way to run the soundcard without changing BIOS
> settings, but it is a pain. You boot to M$Windows and then load linux
> using loadlin, configure sound.
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