[SWLUG] Ancient sb card under Red Hat 9

Gareth Watkins gw at garethwatkins.demon.co.uk
Thu Sep 4 06:35:17 UTC 2003


Peter,

  Sound (& CD-playing) in that PC is working in a Red Hat 7.0 partition 
and a Windows partition, so the hardware is OK. Some change was made from 
Red Hat 8 onwards that stopped the card being recognised correctly. Oh well, 
have to stick to RH7.0...
  Thanks for the advice,
Gareth



Peter Joseph <kneecaps at shockpulse.co.uk> wrote:

> Hey,
>     can't really offer much help on the IRQ conflict, never could deal
> with ISA! With regards to the CD Audio playing, this is normally done
> independently of the machine itself via a analog audio wire from the
> back of the CD Drive directly to a slot on the sound card....if this
> wire is missing...no CD Audio. You should be able to use any linux cd
> audio player to start a cd.
> 
> Hope i've been of some use!
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 20:11, Gareth Watkins wrote:
> >   I can't get sound working under Red Hat 9 on my daughter's (oldish) PC.
> > The RH9 install seemed to go smoothly. 
> > On the first boot after install, RH found the card & offered to configure it, 
> > so I clicked the "Configure" button. But see logfile extract below.
> > Unfortunately, no sound comes out when I play an audio CD. If I tick Sound 
> > For Events in the Gnome Control Centre, I thereafter get a very faint burp 
> > occasionally e.g. when closing a window. So something is happening somewhere.
> > 
> > (In the old days, I used to use /sbin/pnpdump, then uncomment some lines in 
> > /etc/isapnp.conf, and this got things working. But these things don't seem 
> > to exist anymore.)
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me whether there's a simple way of sorting this out? Or 
> > should I just go an buy a cheap PCI card?
> > Thanks,
> > Gareth
> > 
> > 
> > ===========================
> > Sep 1 18:35:34 localhost kernel: sb: Creative ViBRA16X PnP detected
> > Sep 1 18:35:34 localhost kernel: sb: ISAPnP reports 'Creative ViBRA16X PnP' at i/o Ox220, irq 10, dma 1, 3
> > Sep 1 18:35:34 localhost kernel: SB 4.16 detected OK (220)
> > Sep 1 18:35:34 localhost kernel: sb: Interrupt test on IRQ10 failed - Probable IRQ conflict
> > Sep  1 18:35:34 localhost kernel: SB 16: Bad or missing 16 bit DMA channel
> > Sep  1 18:35:34 localhost kernel: sb: 1 Soundblaster PnP card(s) found.
> > Sep  1 18:35:34 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3
> > Sep  1 18:36:44 localhost kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> > Sep  1 18:36:48 localhost last message repeated 3 times
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> kneecaps at shockpulse.co.uk                          kneecaps at debian.org
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