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hello everyone

i'm having a problem with configuring a OPTi 16 sound card working under RH 5.2
& the 2.2.12 kernel.

I've compiled all of the OSS modules and I've tried using sndconfig, but
nothing seems to be working.

The card advertises itself as a SoundBlaster compatible, but just about every
card does that.  It is a PNP ISA card, and the BIOS does recognize the card at
boot time.  I've tried pnpdump and isapnp, but they haven't helped at all.

I'm running this on a pentium 166 MB from asus.  The machine has 48 megs of
ram, and the sound card is the only ISA card.  The other two cards are a
network card and my video card.

anybody had any success getting this card to work under linux?

thanks,

dennis

I've had partial success : I use isapnp to set up the IRQs/IOaddresses, because
sndconfig doesn't work with it. Basically, you need isapnp to return "enabled
OK"
for all the logical devices on the board, then load the appropriate modules. I
still haven't got midi to work though. Here is what I have in /etc/conf.modules:

alias sound-slot-0 sound
alias sound-service-0-3 midi    # probably wrong!

alias sound ad1848      # actually the chip is ad1845
options ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1
alias midi opl3         # module won't load!
options opl3 io=0x388

modprobe sound and see what happens
Like I say, I still haven't got midi to work, I may have the wrong
module entirely.