Hi,
I have a serious problem with my soundcard which persistently
refuses to cooperate with my Linux system. The processor is a
PII on an ASUS P2B-DS motherboard. My kernel is brand new:
version 2.1.125, but it seems to work fine so far for anything
else but sound. The sound card is a vibra16pnp (by Creative Labs).
Whenever I attempted to use sndconfig, for whichever setup I have chosen,
the result was anticipated: A problem appears with modprobe.
Furthermore, when I type: "modprobe sb.o" the answer is:
/lib/modules/2.1.125/misc/sb.o: too many values for dma (max 1)
Has anybody out there seen this attitude before?
I suspect the following details might be useful:
IRQ = 5
I/O range = 0220 - 0223, DMA = 05
I/O range = 0224 - 022F, DMA = 01
I obtained these data using NT diagnostics, so I do cannot be 100% sure
that one could rely on them. :-)
(Afterall, I have deleted Microsoft from my computer!)
When I use "pnpdump -c -script=out", the file "out" contains the following
information:
#!/bin/sh
prefixes="/etc/pnp/config-scripts/isa /usr/share/pnp/config-scripts/isa"
function pnp_isa_configure {
local i id dir found_it
i=0
while [ "${dev_ids[$i]}" != "" ] ; do
id="${dev_ids[$i]}"
for dir in $prefixes ; do
if [ -r $dir/$id ] ; then
source $dir/$id
return $?
fi
done
i=`expr $i + 1`
done
# Failed to find anything
return 1
}
unset irq irq_flags dma dma_flags io_start io_len io_flags
unset mem_start mem_len mem_flags dev_ids
board_id=CTL0070
dev_ids[0]=CTL0001
irq[0]=5 ; irq_flags[0]=0x00
dma[0]=1 ; dma_flags[0]=0x08
dma[1]=5 ; dma_flags[1]=0x12
io_start[0]=0x0220 ; io_len[0]=16 ; io_flags[0]=0x01
io_start[1]=0x0330 ; io_len[1]=2 ; io_flags[1]=0x01
io_start[2]=0x0388 ; io_len[2]=4 ; io_flags[2]=0x01
pnp_isa_configure
unset irq irq_flags dma dma_flags io_start io_len io_flags
unset mem_start mem_len mem_flags dev_ids
board_id=CTL0070
dev_ids[0]=CTL7001
dev_ids[2]=PNPb02f
io_start[0]=0x0200 ; io_len[0]=8 ; io_flags[0]=0x01
pnp_isa_configure
Strangely enough, the file /etc/modules.conf contains:
alias sound sb
options -k sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=3,5
alias midi opl3
options -k opl3 io=0x388
The technical values from these two files are not so consistent, are they? :-)
I will be very grateful for any hint which may help.
Thanks in advance, and sorry for the length of this mail.
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