SonicVibes Sound card not working in Slackware 10.1.0 Linux 2.6.10 GCC 3.4.3
 

Having a problem getting my sonicvibes sound card to run in Linux, just got the card outta of an old computer. Using ALSA, ran alsaconf and have alsamixer all the way up, get a pop on boot and reboot. but no sound while playing. Here's the error i'm getting when the driver tries to load.
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 0000:00:0b.0
BIOS did not allocate DDMA channel A i/o, allocated at 0x7a00
BIOS did not allocate DDMA channel C i/o, allocated at 0x7a10

Hi sherman22, welcome to lq. Could you post the output from the following commands please?

/sbin/lspci -v

/sbin/lsmod

Do you have pnpos enabled in your bios?
good luck.

lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 530 Host (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 2.0

00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS5513 EIDE Controller (A,B step)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 16, IRQ 9
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at 1400 [size=16]

00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge) (rev b1)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:01.1 Class ff00: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] ACPI
Flags: medium devsel

00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 11) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: fc100000-fc1fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fc800000-fcffffff

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11)
Subsystem: Linksys: Unknown device 0570
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
Memory at fc001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: S3 Inc. SonicVibes
Subsystem: Aztech System Ltd: Unknown device 1000
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1420 [size=16]
I/O ports at 1410 [size=16]
I/O ports at 143c [size=4]
I/O ports at 1438 [size=4]
I/O ports at 1430 [size=8]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 530/620 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS530,620 GUI Accelerator+3D
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
Memory at fc800000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M]
Memory at fc100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=32K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0
lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 36704 0
snd-mixer-oss 12152 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-sonicvibes 10596 0
gameport 1420 0 [snd-sonicvibes]
snd-pcm 54504 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-sonicvibes]
snd-opl3-lib 5860 0 [snd-sonicvibes]
snd-hwdep 4352 0 [snd-opl3-lib]
snd-timer 13412 0 [snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib]
snd-mpu401-uart 3200 0 [snd-sonicvibes]
snd-rawmidi 12320 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3812 0 [snd-opl3-lib snd-rawmidi]
snd 31268 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-sonicvibes snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib snd-hwdep snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
snd-page-alloc 4712 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-hwdep snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd]
soundcore 3364 6 [snd]
ide-scsi 9232 0
tulip 37024 1
crc32 2848 0 [tulip]
usbmouse 1944 0 (unused)
keybdev 1860 0 (unused)
mousedev 4052 1
hid 20932 0 (unused)
input 3040 0 [usbmouse keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-ohci 18280 0 (unused)
usbcore 56012 1 [usbmouse hid usb-ohci]
agpgart 45252 0 (unused)
parport_pc 14660 1 (autoclean)
lp 5796 0
parport 22472 1 [parport_pc lp]

Do you mean Plug and Play Bios Support? If so, then no.

What channels do you have available in alsamixer?
good luck.

Master > PCM Synth Line CD Mic Mic Boos Aux Aux 1 Joystick SonicVib SonicVib SonicVib SonicVib SonicVib SonicVib

used the alsa modules in 2.6.10

The modules are loaded, have you tried any other mixers?
good luck.