Thanks very much for your help! It still doesn't work. I tried different irq and io, when 'insmod sb'. it always gives me 'device or resource busy...irq or io isn't set properly...something'.
I am using Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17. My laptop is TwinHead Slimnote VX3. The BIOS is PhonixNote 4.0 version 6. I couldn't find anything about PCI or PnP in CMOS setup. I got some infomation about my sound chip as follow: when doing 'lspci -vv', I got: 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs: Unknown device 8938 Subsystem: TWINHEAD INTERNATIONAL Corp: Unknown device 0e70 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5 Region 0: I/O ports at fcc0 Region 1: I/O ports at fc40 Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr+ DSI+ D1+ D2+ PME+ Status: D0 PME-Enable+ DSel=0 DScale=0 PME+ in /proc/pci, I got: Bus 0, device 6, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 0). Vendor id=1102. Device id=8938. Slow devsel. IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=96. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128. I/O at 0xfcc0 [0xfcc1]. I/O at 0xfc40 [0xfc41]. And I got these modules in my /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/, I am not so sure which one is useful besides soundcore, soundlow, sound and sb. 23 ad1848.o 3 adlib_card.o 64 awe_wave.o 10 lp.o 17 opl3.o 15 parport.o 11 parport_pc.o 6 parport_probe.o 48 sb.o 84 sound.o 7 soundcore.o 2 soundlow.o 76 sunrpc.o 10 uart401.o > > Win98 shows: > > > > Creative SB AudioPCI 64V, > > SoundBlaster: io=220 dma=3 irq=7 > > Soundscape: Base/MIDI port=330 WavePort=534 dma=3 irq=7 > > MPU-401: io=330 irq=7 > > AdLib port=388 > > ... > I can't help much here. It depends on your computer. If your BIOS allows > this, try to change the IRQ of the sound card ( I did it, because IRQ 7 > was used by the parallel port also ... ) > > Just in case it might help, I'll add here the section of my > /etc/modules.conf related to > the sound: > > alias char-major-14 sb > options sb io=0x0220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x0300 > post-install sb /sbin/modprobe "-k" "adlib_card" > options adlib_card io=0x0388 > > pls note that my IRQ and IO addresses are different ... > > Ciao > ----- > FB > __o� o _`\<,_ Z (_)/ (_) /> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~