Hi folks, According to Documentation/sound/Soundblaster I have to report that I had to set the option 'multiple=0' to make my Soundblaster16 work. Without this option I get the following message at boot time: : : Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.13 detected OK (220) sb: I/O region in use. Sound: Hmm, DMA1 was left allocated - fixed Sound: Hmm, DMA6 was left allocated - fixed Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c8866060 printing eip: c885844d *pde = 012d8063 *pte = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c885844d>] EFLAGS: 00010286 eax: c8866060 ebx: c120cd20 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: c1282660 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: c7c95f08 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process aumix (pid: 65, stackpage=c7c95000) Stack: 00000000 c1282660 c7d06500 c128e660 00000000 c1282660 c7d06500 c128e660 72616863 6a616d2d 312d726f c1280034 ffffffeb c0128394 c7d06500 c1282660 c1282660 c7d06500 00000000 c01276a9 c7d06500 c1282660 00000002 0804ddb4 Call Trace: [<c0128394>] [<c01276a9>] [<c01275e3>] [<c01278d9>] [<c0108d23>] Code: 8b 10 85 d2 74 1d 52 e8 cf cc 8b f7 83 c4 04 85 c0 74 14 8b : : This is the output of ksymoops: ksymoops 2.3.4 on i586 2.4.0-test8. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test8/ (default) -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (specified) Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c8866060 c885844d *pde = 012d8063 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c885844d>] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010286 eax: c8866060 ebx: c120cd20 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: c1282660 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: c7c95f08 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process aumix (pid: 65, stackpage=c7c95000) Stack: 00000000 c1282660 c7d06500 c128e660 00000000 c1282660 c7d06500 c128e660 72616863 6a616d2d 312d726f c1280034 ffffffeb c0128394 c7d06500 c1282660 c1282660 c7d06500 00000000 c01276a9 c7d06500 c1282660 00000002 0804ddb4 Call Trace: [<c0128394>] [<c01276a9>] [<c01275e3>] [<c01278d9>] [<c0108d23>] Code: 8b 10 85 d2 74 1d 52 e8 cf cc 8b f7 83 c4 04 85 c0 74 14 8b >>EIP; c885844d <[soundcore]soundcore_open+49/184> <===== Trace; c0128394 <chrdev_open+40/54> Trace; c01276a9 <dentry_open+bd/150> Trace; c01275e3 <filp_open+43/4c> Trace; c01278d9 <sys_open+35/b4> Trace; c0108d23 <system_call+33/40> Code; c885844d <[soundcore]soundcore_open+49/184> 0000000000000000 <_EIP>: Code; c885844d <[soundcore]soundcore_open+49/184> <===== 0: 8b 10 mov (%eax),%edx <===== Code; c885844f <[soundcore]soundcore_open+4b/184> 2: 85 d2 test %edx,%edx Code; c8858451 <[soundcore]soundcore_open+4d/184> 4: 74 1d je 23 <_EIP+0x23> c8858470 <[soundcore]sou ndcore_open+6c/184> Code; c8858453 <[soundcore]soundcore_open+4f/184> 6: 52 push %edx Code; c8858454 <[soundcore]soundcore_open+50/184> 7: e8 cf cc 8b f7 call f78bccdb <_EIP+0xf78bccdb> c0115128 <tr y_inc_mod_count+0/20> Code; c8858459 <[soundcore]soundcore_open+55/184> c: 83 c4 04 add $0x4,%esp Code; c885845c <[soundcore]soundcore_open+58/184> f: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax Code; c885845e <[soundcore]soundcore_open+5a/184> 11: 74 14 je 27 <_EIP+0x27> c8858474 <[soundcore]sou ndcore_open+70/184> Code; c8858460 <[soundcore]soundcore_open+5c/184> 13: 8b 00 mov (%eax),%eax This problem seems to be in since 2.4.0-test7. Please mail me if I can help to fix the problem. Regards Harri -- Harald Dunkel | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If your operating system seems to Synopsys GmbH | Kaiserstr. 100 | be made by Dr. Frankenstein, then 52134 Herzogenrath, Germany | it is time for a change. +49 2407 9558 (fax? 44: 0) | Try Linux! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/