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>I found two threads in the archives similar to my problem -> I almost got
>some sound to work.
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>The possibilities I have are VIA onboard sound which is detected in
>HardDrake, YMF724, also detected, and an old ISA stock Sound Blaster 16 not
>detected.
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I used to have a VIA82blahblah on board but there was something screwed up about the
BIOS settings
and the MOBO itself wasn't quite dandy....
I had to allocate irq5/dma1 as legacy, and it was loading the wrong module(SB) instead
of via82cxxx;
When I finally had that codec working the sound wasn't worth all the tweaking time I
spent.
My tip...disable the VIA and buy a better, A REAL card. Even I should take this piece
of advice.
I tried my cousin's Ensonique and sound came almost automatically.
I changed boards to one that doesn't have any on-board audio and now I use an old
CMI8738.
Its a real cheap card but I can use up to 6 speakers, which is what I really dig.
>The first two are detected by hard drake, but produce no output when running
>"configuration tool". I disabled onboard sound and put in SB16. Even tried
>allocating irq5/dma1/5 as legacy. I got the SB to produce marginal output
>using sndconfig and setting SB16 up manually. But no sound anywhere else.
>(if it helps, Win2k not 98 makes SB16 work, I can set it to any irq and snd
>still comes out) (I have no docs on SB16 jumpers)
Win 2000 b.c. comes with tons of drivers,so it's no
surprise.
That SB16 should work on Mandrake....
I think there's a BIOS entry for VIA chipsets where you can disable onboard sound;
You should jumper-disable and BIOS disable that stubborn chip.
I noticed on my old board that moving PCI cards a slot down also made a difference
volume-wise,
try that too.
Don't mess around with those IRQs too much though, you might end up in IRQ limbo.
I believe Linux is smart enough to figure out which piece of hardware is where, you
just have
to help it along.
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>Any suggestions?
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>I've found hints::
>1. "Setting BIOS to non-PNP" already was
>2. rmmod everything sound related, then run sndconfig (tried that, SB16 now
>gives me errors: Device or Resource busy, insmod, failed, insmod sound-slot-0
>failed) Is this because I didn't "remove everything x-related"? I tried
>"ps-aux" then "kill" one thing, what all do I need to remove?
rmmod is correct.
Linux automatically tries to load a sound module depending on what it sees there for
the first time.
You should remove any module that was loaded before running sndconfig.
If you tried that then something else may be blocking that soundcard.
I would say IRQs and DMAs but I guess you already tried that............
Hmmmmmmmmmm.........
Maybe the wires are misjacked...check the other basics too, I've read that on this
list alot.
>3. Recompile Kernel -this seems like awfully complicated process.. I don't
>think my kernel doesn't support sound as other people with 7.2 said sound
>worked after install.
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>I think I'm close since I heard sndconfig play .wav and midi on sb16. How do
>then make OS use it? Is this because ALSA comes with 7.2 and doesn't have
>SB16 listed in harddrake?
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>-linatic
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>I found two threads in the archives similar to my problem -> I almost got
>some sound to work.
>
My CMI worked with 7.1 after install and my friend had the same result in 7.2 with a
Yamaha.
We always thought it was pure dumb luck.
Recompiling isn't that difficult, and isn't that necessary either.
If your not too conscious about the size of your current kernel and happy with the per-
formance you're getting, you don't have to make xconfig, make dep, or make anything.
I recompiled and it didn't change much....
System got a little faster, sound worked though after I installed a driver I
downloaded from the manufacturer's website;
I guess I wasn't much help.....but If you're already hearing certain sounds that's a
hint that all your tweaking's going somewhere.
Try the different Window Managers if you can get sound on some of them, like AfterStep,
you're golden!.......
To resolve that ALSA issue, though, you got me blank.....
I got sound to work in AfterStep initially, then Gnome [after I found the checkboxes
in gnomecc]
now I use KDE....just can't get enough of those themes!!!!!
Hope everything goes well....
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