Hi. Well, after running another system upgrade a couplea days ago (on Potato, of course), I seem to have broken my sound configuration again. I am not sure if it was this upgrade or a previous one that shifted module configuration from conf.modules to modules.conf (or whatever they're called) but my alienized package of sndconfig still tries to use conf.modules ;-)
This, of course, forced me to try to figure out how to actually install and configure kernel modules (!!). Unfortunately, I seem to be doing something wrong. Here's the short of it: when I try to modprobe the sound module, I get this: /lib/modules/2.2.10/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter parm_io /lib/modules/2.2.10/misc/sound.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.10/misc/sound.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.10/misc/sound.o: insmod sound failed After a quick search, I have not yet found where sound.o is handed a parm_io parameter (I could just be totally misinterpreting the error). I have been making blind guesses as to what I need to do in order to get sound to work. I have an SB AWE64, first of all. When things first started to go wrong with the sound, the isapnp.conf dump seems to have been wrong (IRQ conflicts with nothing apparent to conflict with), so I redumped the info and the card was detected just fine. Next, I went after the modules. For some reason, most of the soundmodules were not selected in modconf, so I did so. That still didn't work, so I dumped the sndconfig attempt at module configuration at the bottom of the script: ---- alias sound sb options opl3 io=0x388 alias midi awe_wave post-install awe_wave /usr/bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 dma16=0 mpu_io=0x330 ---- Finally, I noticed something a bit puzzling further up in the modules.conf file: ---- # Soundcard: alias for gen_sound needed! alias /dev/sound gen_sound ---- What should I use for a gen_sound alias? sb? sound? Anyway, I figured that I should see if I could fix the sound module problem before I did any of the rest of it (though they're probably interrelated...). Also, I should mention that i haven't been able to add the opl3 module yet because of the sound module problem. TIA, -Chris __________________________________________________ FREE Email for ALL! Sign up at http://www.mail.com
