On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:24:38 GMT
Matt Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I've just installed 8.2 but am generally new to Linux having only
> used Redmond Linux before. During setup my soundcard wasn't configured
> properly and the setup told me to run sndconfig later on. So i did that
> and the ISAPNP Probe Results found my sound card:
>
> Model: Crystal Codec:GAME
>
> The first sound card test was ok and i heard the sample sound fine. But
> when it did the second sound card test for the MIDI sample it returned:
>
> modprobe error
> The following error occurred running the modprobe program:
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz:
> init_module: No such device
Well, the opl3 device was not found by the opl3 module ;)
> modprobe: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz failed
> modprobe: insmod synth0 failed
Yes, it's about a FM synthesizer for MIDI. But Timidity (on your CD's)
can play MIDI just fine (in fact the sound quality of the opl3 based MIDI
synthesizer is rather bad AFAIK).
> It offered me the chance to do all the setting manually, but i don't know
> what they are. So my questions are: what does the above error mean and if
> i have to set it up manually then how do i find all the settings for it?
'cat /proc/isapnp' _may_ give you some ideas. It's possible sndconfig made
a mistake and shouldn't have tried to load the opl3 module....
> Also, the strange thing is that for the rest of the session after i have
> run this, the sound card works fine, so i know it works ok, but then i
> have to run sndconfig again next time i log in, which is quite often at
> the moment as my modem is not supported yet, but thats another story!!
You can check with '/sbin/lsmod' which modules (drivers) are loaded. Let us
know. I think sndconfig loaded a driver for your card, then tried to load the
opl3 module which failed. Because of that sndconfig didn't add the necessary
lines to the /etc/modules.conf file.
> Cheers in advance and thanks to all the mandrake people for a cool distro
>
> Matt
HTH,
-Frans
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