I am having a problem with my sound. card (Sound Balster AWE64). I tried to
upgrade my Mandrake 7.1 system using packages from Mandrake Cooker a few
weeks ago. After a reboot, I found that my sound card no longer worked.
There's nothing wrong with my card -- it works fine in Win2000. I believe
that what I installed may have somehow wrecked the settings. Here's a list of
the packages of what I installed:
BitchX-75p3-12mdk.i586.rpm linux_logo-3.05-3mdk.i586.rpm
Device3Dfx-2.3.4-7mdk.i586.rpm linuxconf-1.18-4mdk.i586.rpm
GXedit-1.23-5mdk.i586.rpm locales-2.3-7mdk.noarch.rpm
alsa-2.2.16_0.5.7-9mdk.i586.rpm locales-en-2.3-7mdk.noarch.rpm
chkconfig-1.2.7-2mdk.i586.rpm make-3.79.1-5mdk.i586.rpm
chkfontpath-1.7-3mdk.i586.rpm man-1.5h1-5mdk.i586.rpm
cups-1.1.2-11mdk.i586.rpm man-pages-1.31-1mdk.noarch.rpm
dosfstools-2.4-3mdk.i586.rpm modutils-2.3.15-1mdk.i586.rpm
drakfont-0.52-2mdk.i586.rpm mount-2.10o-1mdk.i586.rpm
esound-0.2.19-6mdk.i586.rpm mpage-2.5.1-12mdk.i586.rpm
g-print-0.2-7mdk.i586.rpm mpg123-0.59r-12mdk.i586.rpm
gedit-0.9.0-2mdk.i586.rpm mtools-3.9.7-3mdk.i586.rpm
gftp-2.0.7b-1mdk.i586.rpm netscape-common-4.75-3mdk.i586.rpm
ggv-0.95-2mdk.i586.rpm netscape-navigator-4.75-3mdk.i586.rpm
gqview-0.8.2-4mdk.i586.rpm pam-0.72-7mdk.i586.rpm
gtkhtml-0.5-3mdk.i586.rpm playmidi-2.4-15mdk.i586.rpm
gurpmi-0.6-5mdk.i586.rpm ppp-2.4.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
imwheel-0.9.8-4mdk.i586.rpm rxvt-2.6.1-9mdk.i586.rpm
jed-B0.99.11-4mdk.i586.rpm sh-utils-2.0-11mdk.i586.rpm
jed-common-B0.99.11-4mdk.i586.rpm sndconfig-0.44-12mdk.i586.rpm
kups-0.8-1mdk.i586.rpm svgalib-1.4.1-6mdk.i586.rpm
lha-1.14f-3mdk.i586.rpm switchdesk-2.1-4mdk.i586.rpm
libc-5.3.12-34mdk.i586.rpm switchdesk-gnome-2.1-4mdk.i586.rpm
libgtop-1.0.9-4mdk.i586.rpm switchdesk-kde-2.1-4mdk.i586.rpm
libjpeg-6b-15mdk.i586.rpm symlinks-1.2-10mdk.i586.rpm
libmikmod-3.1.9-2mdk.i586.rpm time-1.7-16mdk.i586.rpm
libpng-1.0.8-2mdk.i586.rpm timeconfig-3.0.2-8mdk.i586.rpm
libsigc++-1.0.1-3mdk.i586.rpm timetool-2.7-4mdk.noarch.rpm
libstdc++-2.95.2-10mdk.i586.rpm tree-1.3-3mdk.i586.rpm
libstdc++-compat-2.95.2-10mdk.i586.rpm unarj-2.43-13mdk.i586.rpm
libtiff-3.5.5-2mdk.i586.rpm unzip-5.41-3mdk.i586.rpm
libungif-4.1.0-7mdk.i586.rpm urw-fonts-1.1-11mdk.noarch.rpm
libxml-1.8.9-3mdk.i586.rpm wget-1.5.3-12mdk.i586.rpm
Upon rebooting, gmix (the GNOME mixer, which I run at startup) told me (and
continues to tell me whenever I start GNOME) that it souldn't find the mixer
settings. It then suggested to check if sound support was compiled into the
kernel. I figured that since sound worked before and I had not done a kernel
recompile (besides, sound was always loaded as a module) this was not the
problem.
I tried running Mandrake's Lothar Soundconfig, but this didn't help (not that
it did before). Red Hat's sndconfig, which had brought my card to life in the
past, only gave me an error, saying that modutils (which as you can see above
I had replaced) was reading from one file (I think /etc/conf.modules) instead
of another (I think /etc/modules.conf).
I then tried replacing modutils with a version from Red Hat 6.2, and then one
from my Mandrake 7.0 CD. I even tried uninstalling Alsa. These did not help
at all, and at startup I always get the same errors:
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: dsp reset failed.
<SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM512k)>
When I try "insmod sound" at a console (as root) I get the error:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-9mdk/misc/sound.o: a module named sound already exists
And when I try "insmod sb" I get:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-9mdk/misc/sb.o: unresolved symbol probe_uart401_R6467f99b
/lib/modules/2.2.16-9mdk/misc/sb.o: unresolved symbol unload_uart401_Recfdd9c9
/lib/modules/2.2.16-9mdk/misc/sb.o: unresolved symbol uart401intr_R6391d066
/lib/modules/2.2.16-9mdk/misc/sb.o: unresolved symbol attach_uart401_R45af1327
I have also been told by Linux that /dev/dsp is not a device, when I know
that it had represented the sound card before this all happened.
If anyone can help me find a solution to this problem I would be much obliged.
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