Re: [TCLUG:9393] Sound Woes

[Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>]

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Brian Strassman wrote:

> Just did an install of Mandrake 6.1 on my home system, which is sporting
> a
> Creative Labs SB PCI128 as its soundcard.  When I run sndconfig, it
> probes and
> finds an ES1371 audio device (which AFAIK is the correct device for a
> SB128),
> however, sndconfig then hangs when attempting to play the test sound and
> I am
> forced to kill out of it.  Looking at /proc/pci shows that the sound
> card is
> supposedly there, but /dev/sndstat reports "No such device".  When I try
> to manually
> set up the soundcard using pnpdump and isapnp, pnpdump reports "no
> boards found".
> Does anyone have any advice on how I should proceed?

It's not big advice or necessarily good advice, but I found that you might
want to really make sure that the hardware on your sound card agrees with
what the system says it finds.  Sometimes "close enough" works, but there
are other times where two sister chips in a manufacturer's line do *not*
talk to the drivers the same way.

For free, you can try the OSS drivers.  If they do the trick, they want
$20 to use them forever, but I thought it was worth it.  I'd think the SB
card would be supported, but I guess you never know.

Best,
Phil

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