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by **zackar** » Sun, 01 Aug 1999 04:00:00

hello
could anyone specifically solve my sound card problem? my pc
configuration is pentium celeron 300mhz, Terrasound with A3D soundcard
which in manual says compatible with sound blaster pro.
The problem is while booting the system,the sound card fail. then in
xterminal i run sndconfig. first ly it can detect any pci or plug and play
card on my motherboard (something like that) then after i choose
sounblaster pro as my sound card as no terrasound in the menu (actually
after this i try several other soundcard on the menu list but result still
fail) and i got this msg:
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/sb.o:
init_module: Device or resource busy.
sound: Device or resource busy.

That all guys.. really pain when i try some advise but to no success. I
hope somebody out there know the right answer.
pls help.
thank you.
-azaria-

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by gm » Mon, 02 Aug 1999 04:00:00

<newsgroups trimmed> please post in the one newsgroup
that is best for the answer sought.

The A3D cards are not yet supported in linux, at least
as far as open source is concerned. The manufacturer
requires NDA agreements, and this is not compatible with
open source, so the manufacturer has not released the
specifications that would allow a driver to be written more
easily. More info on this is at www.alsa-project.org

http://www.opensound.com/osshw.html has some development
at the beta release stage for some A3D cards, but this
may be a commercial venture.

The short solution for sound in linux is to use a supported
sound card.

regards,
gm

by **Sean Middleditc** » Mon, 02 Aug 1999 04:00:00

It is NOT Soundblaster Pro compatible... the DRIVER is Sound Blaster pro
compatible. Since the driver only runs under Windoze (maybe MS-DOS) it's
pretty much useless. You can get a vortex (A3D) compatible sound system
from OSS (www.opensound.com I think), although for the full version you have
to pay money for both the system and the driver (a total of $40 for a beta
vortex driver) although you can get the "shareware" version, which has
complete functionality, but shuts itself off after so many minutes of use (3
hours for the first week and 20 minues after that) and has to be reset.

My advice: buy a Sound Blaster Live!, the driver is free, and is no further
behind developement than OSS's vortex driver.

Sean Middleditch

Quote:> hello
> could anyone specifically solve my sound card problem? my pc
> configuration is pentium celeron 300mhz, Terrasound with A3D soundcard
> which in manual says compatible with sound blaster pro.
> The problem is while booting the system,the sound card fail. then in
> xterminal i run sndconfig. first ly it can detect any pci or plug and play
> card on my motherboard (something like that) then after i choose
> sounblaster pro as my sound card as no terrasound in the menu (actually
> after this i try several other soundcard on the menu list but result still
> fail) and i got this msg:
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/sb.o:
> init_module: Device or resource busy.
> sound: Device or resource busy.

> That all guys.. really pain when i try some advise but to no success. I
> hope somebody out there know the right answer.
> pls help.
> thank you.
> -azaria-

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> http://www.searchlinux.com

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