I've got a Soundblaster Live card, plus an integrated i810 sound chip. I'm using the SB exclusively - I don't want to have anything to do with the latter. The sound configuration on my system, which never worked adequately to start with ( =midi nonfunctional), has gone from bad to worse. One day when I started up the system, Linux decided suddenly to detect the i810 to which it had until then paid no attention. Now the situation is that whenever I start up the system I have to run sndconfig to get _any_ sound at all out. The "configure" functionality in HardDrake can't do anything at all about it: when it tries to play an 8 bit sample with the i810, I get 'sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied' (and no sound), and when it tries the same thing for SBLive, I get no errors, nor sound.
Now, I'm absolutely losing patience with this PoS. Could someone advice me how to get things in working order? It would be absolutely wonderful to get instructions on how to remove _everything_ related to sound and then reinstall the drivers/whatevers _correctly_ from scratch. Also, I can't figure out how to get my joystick detected. It's an old-fashioned non-USB affair (a Gravis with a rudder wheel), and I have two joy ports to spare, one in the motherboard, one in the SB card. +Cinquo
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