I have been running Debian for several years, but have never tried to get sound running on it. Now that I have been given a faster machine with more memory and a newer processor (read Pentium-166 with 32MB instead of 486DX33 with 12MB) I have decided that it is time to take the plunge.
The new machince has a Yamaha OPL3-SA2 sound card in it. I tried to install the opl3-sa2 driver using modconf, but it said that there were errors and that installation failed. I then tried the mpu-401 driver (which also mentions the OPL3-SA2) and modconf gave me no errors. /dev/sndstat exists cat /dev/sndstat showed no installed devices or drivers. I rebooted the system and received numerous notes saying: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep I checked the timestamps and they were different. Why shoulod this be? I went back into modconf and removed the mpu-401 driver and installed the opl3 driver. This also installed the sound.o, soundlow.o and soundcore.o drivers (as had the mpu-401 driver). On exiting modconf I verified that the timestamp on both /etc/modules.conf and /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep were the same and consistant with the system time. cat /dev/sndstat resulted in: ---------------------------------------- mareschal:$ sudo cat /dev/sndstat OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 Load type: Driver loaded as a module Kernel: Linux mareschal 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Card config: Audio devices: Synth devices: Midi devices: Timers: 0: System clock Mixers: ---------------------------------------------- I rebooted the system again, and, once more got the error: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep On checking the timestamps I noted that the timestamp for /etc/modules.conf was correct, but that the timestamp for /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep had been changed and was 4 hours and 57 minutes earlier than it had been. (For a moment I thought that the timestamp was changed at reboot to GMT, but that would have been 5 hours LATER, not earlier.) cat /dev/sndstat still shows the same as above. What am I doing wrong? How do I get sound on this system? Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. I would really like to get realplayer working so that I can receive web broadcasts of the BBC and other radio stations. -- Marc Shapiro "If you drink melomel every day, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will live to be 150 years old, http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_shapiro/ unless your wife shoots you." -- Dr. Ferenc Androczi, winemaker, Little Hungary Farm Winery
