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I have searched and even given it a couple of days, but I am stuck...
I have a soundblaster16 running on Debian 2.2:
The other night I got my sound working. Playing mp3's across the network, sounds with games everything. Then I reboot and now I have an IRQ conflict that won't allow the sb module to load. I had it working before why would a simple reboot break it?
I have tried to turn off / on the PNP BIOS setting and I have tried to insmod, depmod, modprobe the module again, which is what I did to get it working, but now nothing. I even get errors after trying to rmmod the sb module and then reload it. I haven't grasped the whole hardware aspect yet and I am now stuck. Links are helpful if you have one. I don't mind reading, but I have searched this site and found nothing to help with this problem.
What throws me off the most is it was working!! Any help is appreciated. TIA.
mindwarp
01-24-2001, 01:15 PM
When you boot what does it say when you type 'lsmod' ?.. have you tried typing 'modprobe -r sb' then modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 ? Also just making sure, you already did a 'adduser username audio' also right?
Mindwarp
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o.k. finally I'm back...
I just did a reboot. during the boot it tells me [paraphrase] sb initialize fail. probable irq conflict and it said it was trying irg 7. An lsmod says that sb is being used once, but it doesn't say by what. modprobe -r says that the device is busy. It's still doing the same thing. Not knowing any better I tried
modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5
,but it's still doing the same thing. Help?
<edit>found out what modprobe -r does http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif </edit>
[This message has been edited by cme (edited 24 January 2001).]
mindwarp
01-24-2001, 08:37 PM
well make sure to terminate x windows and ESD or like programs (type ps aux, then kill -KILL pid)... then modprobe -r sb then just figure out what irq etc. your sound card is on
Mindwarp
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"I'm born. I'm alive. I breathe. In a moment or two I realize, that the sphere, upon which I reside, is asleep on its feet. should I go back to sleep? We orbit the sun. I grow up. my open eyes see...A zombified, somnambulist society. Leaving us as vitamins for the hibernating human animal. Do you see what I mean?"
Thanks for the help. This is what happened maybe you can help with this. I rmmod the module and then entered what you said before modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 and now it works. My question is where does this line go so that a reboot won't kill it again? and why do you think it was "busy" before when I tried to remove it? Anyway, I am listening to my newly acquired mp3's across the LAN as we[/I] speak.
Thanks again...
sincka
01-25-2001, 02:14 AM
I actually had a quite weird solution to configuring my sb16.
1: run sndconfig
2: added the line
modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
If I only do step 1 doesn't work because I get an error. If I only do step two it doesn't work either... if I do both... bah!
The night I managed to figure this out was a long one http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif
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