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I've got a head scratcher,  I am running RH6.1 and I have a Creative
ViBRA16X PnP(sb16).  I run sndconfig with no problem, but I cannot hear
the test sounds in sb or midi.  I can however, use the music CD player.
I have all the volumes on my mixer turned to max.  Dmsg shows everything
installing properly:

Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 4.16 detected OK (240)
YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft
1993-1996

When I try a "cat message.wav > /dev/audio" there is a delay, but
nothing happnens.  specs are below.  Any help greatly appreciated.

Ken

]$ cat /dev/sndstat
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux payne 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:

Card config:

Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16)

Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL3

Midi devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16

Timers:
0: System clock

Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster

$more conf.modules
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias scsi_hostadapter ncr53c8xx
alias eth0 eepro100
alias sound sb
pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330

$ more /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:     174070          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       1669          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  5:         13          XT-PIC  soundblaster
  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
  9:      16806          XT-PIC  Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 Ethernet
 11:      65430          XT-PIC  ncr53c8xx
 12:      69526          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
 14:         24          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:         16          XT-PIC  ncr53c8xx
NMI:          0

$ more /proc/dma
 1: SoundBlaster8
 4: cascade

$ more /proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0220-022f : soundblaster
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0330-0333 : MPU-401 UART
0388-038b : Yamaha OPL3
03c0-03df : vga+
03e8-03ef : serial(auto)
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
1000-107f : ncr53c8xx
1400-147f : ncr53c8xx
1820-183f : Intel Speedo3 Ethernet
1840-1847 : ide0

$ more /proc/devices
Character devices:
  1 mem
  2 pty
  3 ttyp
  4 ttyS
  5 cua
  7 vcs
  9 st
 10 misc
 14 sound
 29 fb
 36 netlink
128 ptm
136 pts
162 raw

Block devices:
  1 ramdisk
  2 fd
  3 ide0
  8 sd
  9 md

# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
opl3                   11208   0
sb                     33524   0
uart401                 5936   0  [sb]
sound                  58424   0  [opl3 sb uart401]
soundlow                 300   0  [sound]
soundcore               2404   6  [sb sound]
eepro100               11888   1  (autoclean)
st                     25408   0  (unused)
ncr53c8xx              52264   3

Quote:

> I've got a head scratcher,  I am running RH6.1 and I have a Creative
> ViBRA16X PnP(sb16).  I run sndconfig with no problem, but I cannot hear
> the test sounds in sb or midi.  I can however, use the music CD player.
> I have all the volumes on my mixer turned to max.  Dmsg shows everything
> installing properly:

> Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
> SB 4.16 detected OK (240)
> YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft
> 1993-1996

I was having trouble setting up an es1371 in RH6.1, kernel 2.2.12-20.
  Sndconfig would find it, the audio sample would play, sending a .wav to
  /dev/dsp worked, audio cd's worked, but I got NO system sounds in KDE.

  Seems that "/usr/bin/startkde" is looking for soundcard info in a file
  called "/etc/sysconfig/sound" while sndconfig writes that info in a file
  called "/etc/sysconfig/soundcard". I edited "/usr/bin/startkde", changed
  the reference to "sound" to "soundcard" and now EVERYTHING, system sound
  included, seems to work.

Rod

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