Sound card problem

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 21:55, Scott H wrote:
> Silence can be golden, but when you're trying to
> figure out how to get sound working and you're a
> little new to Linux, well it don't sound all that
> great!  I have Mandrake 8.2 on a Compaq Deskpro
> 4000 and harddrake says the sound card is an ISA
> ESS 1869 (and for DMA2/16 it says "yes", whatever
> that means).  If I hit "Configuration Tool" it
> pops up a window with a list of sound cards and
> the ESS1869 highlighted.  If I hit "OK" there,
> I'm told there is an error in the modprobe call
> "Can't locate module isa-pnp".  So I guess I need
> to get this module?  If so, how do I do that?  
> 
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I am redhat not mandrake but...

switch to root
su -

try
locate isapnp

it should turn up the module in /lib/modules/2.4.xxx/modules.isapnpmap

so I would then turn my attention to /etc/modules.conf
make a copy of it just in case I am telling you something stupid

cp /etc/modules.conf /etc/modules.conf.bak
emacs /etc/modules.conf

eliminate all references to your sound card, including things like...
alias sound-slot-0 cmpci
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :

save the file and exit (Control-X control-C Yes)

then to clean up (some habits die hard)
depmod -ae

then try...
sndconfig

The GUI tools don't always work so well

of course the PCI cards seem to always auto-detect and find an available
IRQ/DMA channel...Fry's sells some cheapies for about $10. I'm listening
to KBAQ right now on one, couldn't tell the difference between that and
a SoundBlaster Live 512 (of course KBAQ's stream is 22KHz mono...)

Craig