setup

[Tommy Moore]

Well, your first problem might be that your going to have to recompile your kernel and say yes to sound suppot and no to everything after that.
If you haven't done this, than nothing you do with the alsa stuff is going to work.

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:01:15PM -0500, Joey Weston wrote:
> here's my computer setup.
> it's a compaq 233 model 4550 with an onboard sound (ess audio drive 1887)
> chip and a sound blaster live! pci card.
> I can't get into or I don't know how to get to the bios to disable the
> onbard sound card.
> I'm trying to get alsa to work.
> I download alsaconf-0.4.3b.tar.gz from ftp.braille.uwo.ca/pub/linux/goodies
> uploaded by ryan mann and it supposedly configured /etc/modules.conf which
> when I looked it was configured, but the drivers still don't work.
> I've compiled th drivers libs and utils I compiled the drivers about 4 or 5
> times but the libs and utils were unchanged because I didn't think it was
> necessary to keep recompiling them.
> I've tried the card 0 and card 1 id's for the sound cards and nothing worked.
> Does any one have a similar setup to mine?
> Also, could I just take the hd the net card and the sb live and get my 486
> upgraded and put the parts into it so it'd only have 1 sound card?
> Any suggestions/help would be helpful.
> I've had any number of people looking at this thing.
> Compaq burning party right?
> phone: 4 0 7 3 0 2 97 29
> Thanks.
> web site: http://www.westonj.f2s.com
> 
> 
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