Soundblaster 16 won't work...

[CiscoKid]

My soundcard worked in mandrake 7.2, but not in 8.0. I ran harddrake and get the following error

"modprobe: can't locate module isa-pnp"

So I try to run sndconfig from the command line and am not able to hear the sample. Actually I can hear the midi test, just not the one where Linus spells Linux....all I hear is , "he.....", instead of hello...blah, blah, blah.

can anyone help?

[bdg1983]

I guess 'modprobe isa-pnp' doesn't work.

Seems like Mandrake 8 did not include the isa-pnp module when you first installed. You may have to recompile the kernel and include isa-pnp.

What does 'lsmod' show?

Actually if you know what resources the SB16 uses you can add a file in /etc/modules/your_kernel_version/options.

If the file 'default' in /etc/modules/... has a line 'sb', then you can create a file in the options directory named sb and include the resources required for the soundcard.

/etc/modules/.../options/sb

io=0x330
irq=5

Anyways, try lsmod and post the results.

[CiscoKid]

thanks for the reply. Here are the results from lsmod.

Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 40864 1 (autoclean)
bsd_comp 4032 0 (autoclean)
ppp_async 6160 1 (autoclean)
ppp_generic 15968 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
parport_pc 23024 1 (autoclean)
lp 5296 0 (autoclean)
parport 24576 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
sb 7136 1 (autoclean)
sb_lib 33120 0 (autoclean) [sb]
uart401 6224 0 (autoclean) [sb_lib]
sound 54256 1 (autoclean) [sb_lib uart401]
soundcore 3504 5 (autoclean) [sb_lib sound]
ipt_REJECT 1888 2 (autoclean)
ipt_limit 864 11 (autoclean)
ipt_state 576 13 (autoclean)
ipt_LOG 3120 11
ip_conntrack_ftp 1856 0 (unused)
iptable_mangle 1680 0 (autoclean) (unused)
iptable_nat 11616 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_conntrack 12096 3 (autoclean) [ipt_state ip_conntrack_ftp iptable_nat]
iptable_filter 1696 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables 10528 9 [ipt_REJECT ipt_limit ipt_state ipt_LOG iptable_mangle iptable_nat iptable_filter]
nls_iso8859-1 2848 3 (autoclean)
nls_cp850 3584 3 (autoclean)
vfat 9040 3 (autoclean)
fat 30720 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
supermount 32496 4 (autoclean)

Hope this helps you help me!! :D

[CiscoKid]

I just typed "dmesg" at the command line and got the following response.

Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: Creative ViBRA16X PnP detected
sb: ISAPnP reports 'Creative ViBRA16X PnP' at i/o 0x220, irq 5, dma 1, 3
SB 4.16 detected OK (220)
sb: Interrupt test on IRQ5 failed - Probable IRQ conflict
SB16: Bad or missing 16 bit DMA channel
<Sound Blaster 16 (4.16)> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,3
<Sound Blaster 16> at 0x330 irq 5 dma 0,0
sb: 1 Soundblaster PnP card(s) found.


This occurs 4 times in a row. I have tried countless times to change the resources using harddrake and sndconfig, but still no luck. ????

[CiscoKid]

ok....here is the weird thing.... i put in a cd in my cdrom and voila...it plays just fine, so obviously the sound in working somewhat. However, I still can't here normal sounds in games, at startup, or any of my sound files. I still keep getting error messages when running sndconf and harrdrake. wtf!! :confused: