Hi, I'm running debian potato, on a K6-2 500 with 500+MB RAM, on a Gigabyte GA-5AA M/B. Everything's working fine, except that I'm trying to get a soundcard working.
Mandrake on the above system auto-detects the card, and gets it working automatically. No drama. But under potato (which I prefer), it's a nightmare. The soundcard is an ESS Audiodrive ES1868F, in ISA form, which I understand can be driven with the 'sb' kernel module. AFAIK, support for the 'sb' module is already compiled into the standard potato kernel, so no kernel rebuild is required - it's just a matter of loading the module with the right params. That's where I hit trouble. No matter what arguments I pass to modprobe, I get the error: /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/misc/sb.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/misc/sb.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/misc/sb.o: insmod sb failed greycat on #debian suggested 'pnpdump -c', to auto-detect and select a viable configuration, but this just hangs. pnpdump by itself produces a confusing array of options. Someone please help Thanks David
