by > I was running RedHat 5.1 for a while, and my SoundBlaster 16 PNP card worked
> great - I configured it with sndconfig. I upgraded to 5.2, and all was well.
> However, I recently hosed my system, and had to reinstall 5.2 from scratch.
> Now I can't get my sound card to work. sndconfig reports an error, and so
> does the system at boot time - something about not being able to correctly
> parse the pnp file in /etc (I can't remember the name of this file).
something untoward has happened to the file, you should be able to recreate it
by typing the command:
pnpdump > isapnp.conf.sample
You must then edit the file according to the settings of your sound card. There
are extensive instructions embedded in the pnpdump file.
You can test the file before using it to boot with by typing:
isapnp isapnp.conf.sample
If everything works, you should get some output that tells what plugnplay
devices have been identified.
Hope this helps.