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From: Erik Hanson <airyq@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 2 : no sound
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I used to have the same problem. For whatever reason, you need to load
the modules like so:

modprobe snd-??
insmod /lib/modules/2.?.?/misc/snd-pcm1-oss.o

I have no idea why that one doesn't load via modprobe *shrug*

---George David Morrison <gdm@gedamo.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I have a Sound Blaster 2 (the box claims 2.0, ALSA 2.01+ and OSS/Free
> 2.1; take your choice) and I get no pcm sound from either native or
OSS
> utilities. I'm not convinced that this card has a mixer (neither
ALSA or
> OSS/Free detects one) although the snd-mixer module is loaded by
> modprobe.
> /proc/asound/card1/pcm0 appears to contain correct information during
> playback.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> alsa-driver-0.3.0-pre2, alsa-lib-0.3.0pre2, alsa-utils-0.0.8
> 
> /proc/asound/cards:
> 0 [card1          ]: SB - Sound Blaster 2.01+
>                      Sound Blaster 2.01+ at 0x220, irq 5, dma 1
> 
> /proc/asound/devices:
> 144: [0]   : control
> 168: [0- 0]: digital audio
> 200: [0- 0]: raw midi
> 
> /proc/asound/pcm:
> 00-00: SB DSP : DSP v2.1
> 
> /proc/asound/card1/pcm0 (during playback):
> DSP v2.1
> 
> Playback
>   Mode           : native
>   Format         : Unsigned 8-bit
>   Rate           : 10989Hz [requested 11025Hz]
>   Channels       : 1
>   Buffer size    : 65536
>   Buffer used    : 65536
>   Fragments      : 32
>   Fragment size  : 2048
>   Fragments room : 1
>   Fragments max  : 31
>   Underruns      : 0
>   Total underruns: 0
> Record isn't active.
> 
> /etc/conf.modules:
> alias char-major-14 snd
> alias snd-minor-oss-3 snd-pcm1-oss
> alias snd-minor-oss-4 snd-pcm1-oss
> alias snd-minor-oss-5 snd-pcm1-oss
> alias snd-minor-oss-12 snd-pcm1-oss
> alias snd-card-0 snd-sb8
> options snd-sb8 snd_index=1 snd_port=0x220 snd_irq=5 snd_dma8=1
> 
> uname -a:
> Linux gedamo 2.0.36 #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998 i586 unknown
> 
> -- 
> George David Morrison
> mailto:gdm@gedamo.demon.co.uk
> http://www.gedamo.demon.co.uk
> 
> 
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