Sound Card Config....

["Sunit Mathur" <sunit_mathur@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everybody,

I had a Yamaha 16-bit sound card(ISA). I came across a 32-bit PCI Yamaha
sound card, so I bought it (Dirt Cheap). Linux does not detect it as OPL3X
.... How do I install it...

Thanx & Regards
Sunit Mathur


- ----- Original Message -----
From: Sundeep Holani <sundeep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: eth0 conflicts with sound card?


>Hi,
>
>> Try running the config utils that came with the cards to see if you
>> can set it to a different irq.
>
>I had already done that. There is no utility with the sound card but the
>network card settings were changed to all possible combinations.
>
>> The drivers will be loaded on demand from /etc/conf.modules. So the
>> order in which they get loaded may sometimes depend on /etc/rc.d/*
>> scripts  and sometimes whether you ping first or play sound first.
>
>Prior to installing my sound card, dmesg showed "eth0 detected at 0x320" or
>something like that. After installing the sound card that message no longer
>appeared... there were messages about the sound card being detected
>instead... doesnt this mean that the drivers from conf.modules are being
>loaded at boot time rather than on demand??
>
>I've actually solved my problem now. After lot of tinkering around I found
>that there is no reference to the ethernet drivers in my rc.sysinit . How
>then was the card being detected when no sound card was present? There are
>entries in the script regarding the sound card which checks for 'sound'
>entries in my conf.modules , and if present , does a 'modprobe sound' at
>boot up.Let me stress... there is nothing like this present for the
ethernet
>card. OK.. so now what I've done.. I've added an entry "modprobe ne"(my
>conf.modules says "alias eth0 ne") in the rc.sysinit.. and now every thing
>is working fine.Both the sound and the network card are being detected at
>bootup.. which again proves that there wasnt an I/O or IRQ conflict, the
>problem was somewhere else.My question is... where? Also there is a
>reference to /lib/modules/preferred (which strangely is a directory) just
>before a "modprobe -a" is done  in the rc.sysinit. What is this for? Please
>enlighten me.
>
>Regards,
>Sundeep.
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> -Arun
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