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Topic: Soudblaster Vibra 16 (sb), sb.o not working

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xerex

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Posted: Aug. 29 2004,11:06

Hello!
Recently I installed Damn Small Linux 8.0.0 on my AST ASCENITA950N laptop. It runs fine on it, but sound doesn't work.

sndconfig doesn't find any cards, and when I select the card, it exits with the error message segmentation fault

when I try

Code Sample

$ insmod sb
/path/sound/sb.o: unresolved symbol sb_dsp_init
/path/sound/sb.o: unresolved symbol sb_dsp_detect
/path/sound/sb.o: unresolved symbol sb_dsp_unload
/path/sound/sb.o: unresolved symbol smw_free
/path/sound/sb.o: unresolved symbol unload sbmpu
/path/sound/sb.o: unresolved symbol probe_sbmpu

anybody ever met this kind of errors? May I've got to recompile a kernel? Is there any other solution, shorter than a kernel compile?
Thank you in advance

ke4nt1

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Posted: Aug. 29 2004,14:51

What do you see if you type
" modprobe sb " or even better
" modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 " ?

If those commands return a prompt without errors, you can also try..
" modprobe opl3 "

If successful , exit X ( ctrl-alt-bksp ) and restart X " startx "
Do you see the wmix dock app in yor slit ?

The sndconfig app frequently seg-faults... not your laptops fault.
The 0.70 works better, but installs much bunk as well...
It is available thru apt-get..

Can you change the sound card parameters in your bios ?
( I thought you could on this model )
What are they set to now ? ( io , irq , dma , etc... )
Try changing the irq to 7, as yenta ide likes to grab irq5 on bootup.

73
ke4nt

xerex

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Posted: Aug. 29 2004,19:26

Hello!

Thank you very much for your detailed answer ke4nt1!
In BIOS, these settings are changeable, but I left them at their original values.

I tried modprobe sb io=0x220 .... and restarted X.

Sound works: I could listen to 96kbps 44kHz internetradio on a pentium 75 Mhz, 16MB RAM without lags, at 75% CPU utilization!! That's great!

I only don't know, why is it a bit silent with headphones. But music sounds better with an amplifier!

I should see if the inbuilt speaker is working.

I never could imagine that once this laptop will do graphics, not mentioning sound with Linux!

Another thing I would like to ask, is how do I configure DSL, so that the soundcard is recognized and set up during boot?

ke4nt1

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Posted: Aug. 29 2004,21:36

Add your modprobe line to your "/opt/bootlocal.sh" ..

Make sure the text "/opt/bootlocal.sh" is in
your /home/dsl/filetool.lst ..

After you have completed a backup,
if you use the "restore=yourbackuplocation" when you boot,
the settings will automagically be restored with every boot.

If this is a HDInstall , simply edit the /opt/bootlocal.sh

And the little red dot on the circle in your wmix dock app
is your mixer settings/volume control ..
Click & Drag with your mouse ..
Check both PCM/wave volume, and master volume.

73
ke4nt

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Posted: Dec. 15 2005,16:56

Quote (xerex @ Aug. 29 2004,15:26)

Sound works: I could listen to 96kbps 44kHz internetradio on a pentium 75 Mhz, 16MB RAM without lags, at 75% CPU utilization!! That's great!

Hi all.
I. ve to got a ast 950n.. How do you do to get 75% cpu load
I.ve got 32mb ram and still got a lag.. all the time.. Hmm
Greatfull for answers..

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DSL-2.1 IBM TP760xl p166mhz 72mb ram 3gbhdd

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