My first Linux install has a few bumps.

Sound:
I can't seem to get sound working. I have two sound cards (I put the second
one in because I couldn't get the first one working).
The first one is an Ensoniq1370/AudioPCI card which is detected by the
system and the alsa drivers seem to be loaded according to lsmod. I ran
alsamixer to unmute and set the volume up, but I still can't seem to get any
sound.

The second card is a Creative Labs Vibra16s. It is a PnP card. I don't quite
understand the pnp stuff, though. I ran pnpdump and created a
/etc/isapnp.conf. But when the system boots, I get errors because it says
the device is busy (?). After the boot I can log in and run isapnp and
everything is configured properly. Is that supposed to happen? Is there
another step after running isapnp, though? I tried to run alsamixer -c 1 and
it says no such device.

Another weird thing is that I have two CD drives. Each is connected to a
sound card. When I play a CD with Kscd (or whatever its called) on the first
drive (connected to the Ensoniq sound card), I don't hear anything through
the headphone jack on the CD drive even though it appears to be playing
(weird). If I play the second CD drive (the one connected to the Pnp sound
card) I can hear it playing through the headphone jack.

Ethernet:
The ethernet card(s) don't seem to come up reliably on boot. Sometimes they
come up, sometimes they don't. Running ifconig after I log in seems to
always work. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Ah, some success. I ran alsaconf (found this suggestion after fishing
through one of the referenced forums) and that seems to have fixed up the
Ensoniq card. Also found other references to people having problems with
sb16 cards.

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:50:50 -0500, Sister Gerdes wrote:

> Ah, some success. I ran alsaconf (found this suggestion after fishing
> through one of the referenced forums) and that seems to have fixed up the
> Ensoniq card.

Great.

> Also found other references to people having problems with sb16 cards.

You shouldn't have to muck around with pnpdump; load the isa-pnp however.
Just in rc.local something like:

( cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel sound/isa/sb
for module in *.o; do
/sbin/modprobe `echo $f |cut -d. -f1`
done
)

Maybe edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules for the generic alsa stuff (although that
should get loaded upon finding your Ensoinq already.)

And edit /etc/modules.conf as per described here:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/MultipleCards

Have fun.

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-Menno.