> I posted a while ago about my sound card and followed the sueegestions i > was givenand i got sound... until i rebooted at which point loading the > sound failed and I got a message about my mouse "device busy" and once X > loaded the mouse was just frozen in the middle of the screen. > > So i have now restored /etc/modules.conf back to how it was and all is ok > again � well except i still have no sound. > > Any more ideas as to what i can do?
That sounds like classic IRQ conflict. > > Cheers > > > 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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