Re: [linux-audio-user] the mystery of the disappearing sound card

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] the mystery of the disappearing sound card
From: Linium (intent_AT_club-internet.fr)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 18:59:18 EET


I have a fidji card which is basicly a pinneacle without the onbard
synthesizer.

I never had this kind of problem, but i remember that i had to update the
Xlink prom thingy chipset on the card.
But i don't know if it is the source of your problem.

I would suggest to try another irq. It is sometime possible to assign an irq
in the bios of your computer for the ISA slots.

You can try different to set the card in a non plug and play mode and change
the i/o memory range with the jumpers on the card

Hope it help.

Are you card well fixed in your PC ?

Linium

Le Mercredi 9 Janvier 2002 16:56, vous avez écrit :
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:00:23 -0500
> Speaker to Vegetables <speaker-to-vegetables_AT_pobox.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> > These may be things you've already tried, but just in case...
> >
> > The card won't show up in /proc/interrupts until it generates a
> > interrupt, which it won't do until it has been initialized by the
> > proper driver. If it's a PCI card, check /proc/pci or the lspci command
> > to verify that the card is still visible to the pci bus.
>
> okay...
> although its an ISA card :o(
>
> > Find the driver module for your card, probably in
> > /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/misc. It will be snd-card-<something>.o
> > for an ALSA driver, something else for an OSS-type driver. Try manually
> > loading this module with modprobe. If it can't find and initialize the
> > card it should produce some kind of error message either on your
> > terminal or in the system log. I'm sorry, I don't remember where
> > Mandrake stashes its logfiles, probably somewhere in /var/log.
>
> /var/log/messages usually...
>
> yeah, i'm afraid i've tried all the usual things... loading with modprobe
> generates "Device not found"
>
> its an oss driver, using msnd_pinnacle.o and msnd.o
>
> > Does anything else show up as using irq 10? If so, that could be a
> > problem. Interrupt sharing is supposed to work, in general, but
> > sometimes it doesn't. Especially for ISA cards.
>
> nothing is showing up at all on irq 10, thats whats worrying me.
> in the past i've had the usual "device busy" errors... which often arent
> because the device is busy, but on red hat systems there have been
> conflicts caused by the modem, or, as i suspect with more recent systems,
> the network card. i've managed to correct these by using modprobe and my
> various hacks for /etc/modules.conf - but on those occasions the TBP card
> was showing up in /proc/interrupts.
>
>
> ... puzzled!
>
> thanks heaps
>
> m


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