Re: ISA SoundBlaster card with newer distributions?

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:07:18 -0500, Jean-David Beyer staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> Jim Haynes wrote:
>> You could go to the device manager in Windows and see what address
>> and IRQ and all that your card is set up for. Sounds like maybe your
>> card is a really old one that predates PnP and has the addresses and
>> IRQ set by DIP switches or something. You might have to pass those
>> as parameters to the sb16 module by saying something in modules.conf.
> But I cannot put them into the /etc/modules.conf file because newer
> versions of Linux do not use that file

? Gentoo here, last "emerge sync && emerge world" was last week,
module-init-tools 3.0, and I still have a modules.conf file here that
behaves as expected.

> I do not know if Linux uses the same PNP values as does Windows.

Maybe, maybe not. If this thing is a real SB16, the standard values
should work. Try it manually from the command line:

modprobe sb irq=5 io=0x220 dma=1 dma2=5

(the usual defaults) and see what you get.

> nearest thing is modprobe.conf and I do not really know its syntax.
>
> options modulename option...
> This command allows you to add options to the module modulename
> (which might be an alias) every time it is inserted into the kernel:
>
> So what ARE the options; i.e., their syntax?

Same as modules.conf, like so:

options sb irq=X io=Y dma=Z dma2=W

....and it'll work. Make sure you figure out the right stuff beforehand
by manually modprobing; it's a bit easier that way. I don't know how
well ALSA will work (or if it'll work) here. Very little about ALSA has
impressed me, though at least they finally have alsaconf doing things
that are mostly right.

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