[SlugBug] [m.dewar@sheffield.ac.uk: sound card - n00b question!!]

[Neil McGovern]

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----- Forwarded message from Mike Dewar <m.dewar at sheffield.ac.uk> -----

Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:46:42 +0100
From: Mike Dewar <m.dewar at sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: sound card - n00b question!!

Hi,

First off - thanks loads for the information you all gave me about 
installing linux on an old computer... I've gone with the RedHat 9 
option but now have a problem... I've been beating my head against it 
for a few hours, and think I've made one critical mistake. Anyway:

I have a Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound card that i'd like to use to listen to 
music whilst I work. After installing RH9 happily, upon first boot 
'Kudzu' started up and detected my soundcard, which was great, then my 
graphics card, then segfaulted. So now my graphics suck and I've no sound.

I've managed to sort out the graphics through some random luck and 
messing about - I'm not quite sure how it worked but it all turned out 
fine. However, now I've a problem with sound: Redhat's sound config 
won't admit that there's a soundcard and Kudzu no longer thinks there's 
a soundcard either.

demesg mentions the soundcard and some of it's settings on a line 
beggining 'isapnp', conlcuding that there is, in fact, 1 plug and play 
device. But then nothing else is mentioned, no errors or anything to do 
with sound cards. So after messing about online I come across 
/etc/modules.conf  - it has a line with something like 'pre-remove' on 
it which didn't sound healthy. My mistake came i think when i thought 
'bugger it' and deleted all the lines that related to the soundcard in 
modules.conf in the hope that something (Kudzu maybe?) would re-write 
them when it noticed they weren't there. Should have backed it up 
probably. The modules.conf lines weren't magically re-written and now 
I'm kind of stuck. In the same spirit I removed any trace of the 
soundcard from hwconf...

I know the correct modules are installed with the kernel. I know that 
the soundcard exists and what model it is. I know its irq, dma etc etc. 
If only I could persuade RH that the soundcard existed I'd be well ahead.

So is there anyway I can reset Kudzu or whatever into thinking that 
there's a new sound card? if not is there a way to manually install the 
sound card???

Any help would be great. Sorry if this is too newbie, and sorry if I'm 
too wordy...

Mike Dewar

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Mike Dewar
Dept. of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering
University of Sheffield, UK
Tel: +44 (0)114 2225553

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Thanks,
Neil
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