Thanks to all who have submitted suggestions on getting ALSA to work
with my Sound Blaster 16 PCI PnP card. However, nothing has worked.
I've tried ALSA again and again. I tried the kernel's built-in
sound-card modules. I tried a different sound card. I tried putting
the sound card in a different slot inside my box. I re-installed
isapnptools (even though the documentation says I don't need it for a
PCI card). But still, nothing. Over and over, 'modprobe sb16' blows up
at me, and I keep getting told that the device is either busy or not
present.
I've wondered if something is broken - either the main board or the
sound card itself. But I think not; 'lspci -v -b' seems to indicate
everything's fine:
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5580 AudioPCI (rev 02)
Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI128
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
I/O ports at ec00
Capabilities: [cd] #00 [0000]
Here are some entries in /var/log/messages from my latest boot-up
sequence. Some of them may give clues, but I'm too much of a newbie to
know for sure.
<snip>
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry
at
0xfb480, last bus=1
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router VIA
[1106/0586]
at 00:07.0
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
<snip>
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: ALSA card-sb16.c:612: Sound Blaster
16
soundcard not found or device busy
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: ALSA card-sb16.c:616: In case, if
you
have AWE card, try snd-card-sbawe module
<snip>
Here's the result of 'modprobe snd-card-sb16':
/lib/modules/2.4.14cf120901/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: init_module: No such
device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.4.14cf120901/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.14cf120901/misc/snd-card-sb16.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.14cf120901/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: insmod
snd-card-sb16
failed
Here's the set of code alsaconf sticks into my modules.conf:
### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa-path
# ALSA modules configuration
# --- ALSACONF verion 0.4.3b ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sb16
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660
snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0
options snd-card-sb16 snd_index=0 snd_id=CARD_0 snd_port=0x220
snd_mpu_port=0x300 snd_irq=12 snd_dma8=1 snd_dma16=5 snd_mic_agc=0
# Debian ALSA modules path
# Do not edit this unless you understand what you're doing.
path=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa-path
I currently have the latest alsa-driver beta package. I'm running Woody
on an i586 K6 machine. PnP OS has been disabled in my BIOS. I am
positive that my sound card is SoundBlaster 16 PCI PnP. (I bought it
less than a week ago, and I still have the box and all the
documentation, which hasn't been any help.)
I don't necessarily want to use ALSA. I just want sound to come out of
my speakers. I'd be grateful if anyone can help.
-Curtis
