disappearing sound card

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi gang -

I am stymied again and need some ideas. I am upgrading another system here
(not my primary machine) and am unable to detect my sound card, an
SB16. The system originally had a small partition with DOS installed,
where the sound card worked fine - and still works fine after the
upgrade. The balance of the 800 meg disk is given over to Linux, and
formerly ran a Slackware 4.0 distribution with kernel 2.2.14 and the alsa
drivers version 0.4.1, and in that environment the SB16 worked properly. I
made no hardware changes during the upgrade to Slackware 7.1 kernel 2.2.16
and then 2.2.18, with alsa drivers 0.5.10, but now in Linux there is no
sign of the SB16 at all - anywhere - the drivers can't find it, it does
not appear in the /proc/interrupts listing, it has virtually
disappeared. Rebooting to DOS makes it appear again, but in Linux there is
no sign of it.

I have tried everything I can think of, including compiling the alsa
drivers --with-debug=detect as suggested in the docs, and I get the
following in my messages file:

insmod: hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.

This message appears four times in the messages file. The card is not a
PNP card and the values set in the aliases are the ones which worked
before the upgrade, and which still work in a DOS environment.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. This problem is very likely to be
the last such problem I will need help with in the year 2000!

Chuck


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