Installing a SB16 card...
 

I installed Debian 2.2 a while ago and I haven't been able to get my PnP ISA Soundblaster 16 card to work. I've tried quite a few things, but insmod/modprobe always fail with an error message of either:

'sb: dsp reset failed'

or a message telling me the I/O port I wanted to use is already in use. Can anyone help me out? I'll provide any other information you'll need, of course.

For reference, /proc/ioports reports as so:
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02f8-02ff : serial(set)
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(set)
d400-d47f : eth0
f000-f007 : ide0
f008-f00f : ide1

and I beleive I'm already using the proper DMA and IRQ settings when I try to load the driver with modprobe. I just can't seem to get IO to work out..

Since it's ISA you should use isapnp, roughly it involves doing "pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf" and then uncommenting the right DMA, IRQ and IO base addresses. Then youve got to add values for sound in /etc/conf.modules like
alias sound sb
alias midi (midi module if used)
options sb io=(IO address) irq=(number) dma=(number) dma16=5 mpu_io=(IO address)
More in The Linux Sound HOWTO, chapter 4.2. Configuring ISA Plug and Play: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Sound-...15.html#AEN338