How to make the OPTi931 sound card run in potato (2.2.9): 1) Go to RedHat and get the rpm's for sndconfig and newt40.
2) Use alien to make these into debs, and install. . 3) Run sndconfig. 4) Ignore the midi problem and save the versions of isapnp.conf and conf.modules. 5) Put these two lines somewhere handy; I used the end of /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh: isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf modprobe mad16 The above assumes you've read and obeyed the kernel docs for opti; in addition to those, and I don't know if this is really necessary, I also configured the kernel to build the soundlow module. To do this select one of the lowlevel sound devices in your kernel config. Comments, reflections, excoriations and emendations are cheerfully invited! -- Bob Bernstein http://members.home.net/ruptured-duck at Esmond, Rhode Island, USA --==++*++==-- "RMS's "curmudgeon-like" griping that he didn't like the term "Open Source" looked silly to many last year; it's not looking so dumb today..." Christopher B. Browne
