This happens because you are not running Sndconfig "properly".
Sound config needs to be run on a system that has -NO- sound components
already loaded.
Get out of Xwindows altogether.
Make sure that any window managers or X sessions are "killed" and you are at
a prompt at the console logged in as root.
Now type
# lsmod
You'll get back.
3c59x 20176 1 (autoclean)
ipx 13472 15 (autoclean)
awe_wave 159040 0
sb 34752 0
uart401 6384 0 [sb]
sound 58368 0 [awe_wave sb uart401]
soundlow 464 0 [sound]
soundcore 2800 7 [sb sound]
st 24496 0 (unused)
ipip 5104 0 (unused)
ip_gre 6688 0 (unused)
ip_masq_portfw 2608 0 (unused)
ip_masq_user 3552 0 (unused)
And maybe a bunch of others, including the emu10K1 which does not show up on
my listing.
Now you have to remove them in "reverse" order.
I.E. For my example above
# rmmod awe_wave
# rmmod sb
# rmmod uart40
# rmmod sound
# rmmod soundlow
# rmmod soundcore
In your case you'll also have to
# rmmod emu10k1
If at any point you get a device "busy" error, then you tried to remove a
module without first removing another one that depends upon it. That is you
removed one in the wrong order.
Try again until all the sound related modules are gone...
Type "lsmod" to double check.
Finally when they all disappear, run SNDCONFIG again.
This will cure the problem.
-JMS
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Schroeder
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie]
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to get my sound blaster live X-gamer working.
I got some ideas from some people here yesterday to try and went home last
night and really went nuts on trying to get it to work.
I even yanked my network card and swapped slots with it to see if that
helped.
Anyway, here is a website with the screen dump of the error that sndconfig
gives me...
http://ariesplanet.tripod.com/sndconfig_screenshot.htm
(I only did this in a KDE environment to get the screen capture. I did it
logged in as root like you're supposed to without X)
If anyone knows anything about this I'd be grateful to hear what you have to
say.
--Matt
