Please disregard my last post (and this one too I guess then).
The whole problem was caused by my inverted understanding of what
"PnP OS" meant in the BIOS. It turns that it doesn't mean
"do you want PnP active" instead it means...
"Is the OS going to handle the PnP setup (or should the BIOS do it)"
Now the BIOS initializes my sound card and I'm no longer driven
insane by the unimaginable silence of my office. ;-)
Thanks again,
- Jeff
Jeff Wiegley wrote:
>
> I was running a socket-7 motherboard with an AMD k6-233 CPU and I've
> been running 2.0.33 for a while now without any problems. Even my
> SB AWE64 was generating sound.
>
> I recently switched to an Abit LX-6 Slot 1 motherboard and a P-II 333
> CPU. I'm still running kernel v2.0.33 but now it seems that my
> sound card is no longer detected.
>
> cat /dev/sndstat yeilds the usual stuff...
> Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Mon Apr 13 19:46:00 PDT 1998 root,
> Linux argonaut.w3-design.com 2.0.33 #2 Mon Apr 13 18:27:10 PDT 1998 \
> i686unknown)
> Kernel: Linux argonaut.w3-design.com 2.0.33 #3 Mon Apr 13 19:46:39 PDT \
> 1998 i686
> Config options: a80002
>
> Installed drivers:
> Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
> Type 2: Sound Blaster
> Type 7: SB MPU-401
>
> Card config:
> (Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,5)
> (SB MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 5 drq 0)
> (OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0)
>
> Audio devices:
>
> Synth devices:
>
> Midi devices:
>
> Timers:
> 0: System clock
>
> Mixers:
>
> I know this means the card is configured but not detected but what I don't
> understand is why it isn't being detected now when it was working with the
> other motherboard? I also don't know how to fix it.
>
> I have tried booting to DOS/Win95 and the sound card works perfectly there.
> I have tried booting to DOS/Win95 to initialize the card and then a warm
> reboot to linux without luck.
> I have tried various IRQ/DMA combinations that match what DOS and Win95
> configure the card at but they don't work either.
>
> Any ideas on what I can do to fix this problem?
>
> I've even used teh SoundBlaster-AWE64 mini-howto but it doesn't seem to
> yeild progress. The parts about the isapnptools doesn't seem to work.
> pnpdump yeilds results which are just this (with comment and blank lines
> removed)...
>
> (READPORT 0x0203)
> (ISOLATE)
> (IDENTIFY *)
> (CONFIGURE CTL009e/249239456 (LD 0
> ))
> (CONFIGURE CTL009e/249239456 (LD 1
> ))
> (CONFIGURE CTL009e/249239456 (LD 2
> ))
> (WAITFORKEY)
>
> Which seems odd because it doesn't have any of goody lines as shown in the
> mini-howto...
>
> (CONFIGURE CTL009d/268451217 (LD 0
> (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
> (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
> (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
> (IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))
> (IO 1 (BASE 0x0330))
> (IO 2 (BASE 0x0388))
> (ACT Y)
> ))
>
> I do have the motherboard set to be a pnp OS and the resources are
> controlled automatically. There are no resource conflicts as far as
> IRQs and DMAs go so I'm at a total loss as to what to do to fix this
> problem.
>
> Thanks for any help you can lend me,
>
> - Jeff
>
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