sound in corel linux?

[grayceworks]

Help! I have never used Linux before today. I do computer repair and custom built systems and have always used the MS products. Today I installed Corel Linux on a HP Vectra with a P166 and 32MB ram, 1.6GB HD, Matrox Millenium MGA 4mb video, and an ISA SB Vibra16pnp sound card. All of this always autoconfigures in windows95/98. And everything except the sound installed beautifully in Corel Linux. It's much quicker than windows98, and once i found my way around the different file system, I'm doing OK. but i followed the directions for setting up the sound and i can't get it to work. i logged in as root, ran pnpdump to an isapnp.conf file, but then, when i ran isapnp, nothing happened at all, it just gave me another prompt. so i attempted to edit the file in a text editor, but the file was not there, it was instead, isapnp.gone .so i opened that, and the info about the sound card was there so i removed the characters that were remarking out the lines and saved the file as the isapnp.conf again. was that right? then i ran sndconfig and it said that no pci sound cards were detected, and it closed. am i not doing this right? any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks, grayce

[Lin-X]

You need to do this:

1) At a command prompt, type:
pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf

2) Edit the file /etc/isapnp.conf according to the resources you have available.

3) Then at a command prompt type :
isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf

4) Finally run sndconfig

Hope this helps.


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[grayceworks]

I already did this. When I look for the isapnp.conf file it shows up as isapnp.gone. And when I go ahead and edit it and resave it as isapnp.conf, and then run isapnp it does nothing at all.(all done exactly as directed)it just gives me another prompt. and when i then run sndconfig it says no pci sound devices found and closes.
I typed everything exactly, and it doesn't work. I know the sound card works and is pnp compatible as it self configures in windoze. I am trying to get all the computers we sell over to linux because it is too much overhead to keep up with the license requirements for the OTHER operating systems. but i don't know if i can convince the owner of the shop to do this if i can't get the sound configured. although he is impressed with the basic system. is there any other way to configure the sound? thanks.grayce


Originally posted by Lin-X:
You need to do this:

1) At a command prompt, type:
pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf

2) Edit the file /etc/isapnp.conf according to the resources you have available.

3) Then at a command prompt type :
isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf

4) Finally run sndconfig

Hope this helps.

[kfellers]

I am having the same problem. Installed CLOS2 and cannot get sound. Sound was working with CLOS1. I too could use the help.