Sound Card
 

Ok i have a isapnp sound card i found many many other posts on here and i tried many things ok i was reading one of the posts and this is what i did:

# pnpdump > isapnp.conf
Then i went into isapnp.conf file and uncommented the stuff it showed in this post i was following so i did. Then i went into /etc/rc.d/rc.modules (does it matter it i went in to rc.modules instead of rc.modules.new??? does it??) ok then i uncommented my card or what was close to my card like i did before meaning the last time i had to configure this.. then i did:

# chmod 666 /dev/dsp
# chmod 666 /dev/mixer

Then i rebooted Tell me if i did anything wrong and tell me if u want to post my isapnp.conf file up

i did dmesg and got:

isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
isapnp: Card 'D-Link DE-220P PnP ISA Card'
isapnp: Card 'Creative ViBRA16C PnP'
isapnp: Card 'U.S.Robotics x2 Winmodem Voice'
isapnp: 3 Plug & Play cards detected total

And for lsmod i get:

root@DarkPunk:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
soundcore 3332 0 (autoclean)
uhci 24496 0 (unused)
usbcore 58400 1 [uhci]
pcmcia_core 40032 0
ide-scsi 9424 0
tulip 40928 1
crc32 2880 0 [tulip]


Thanx for ur responds

Matt3333

just a note:
if you use devfs, your mixer and dsp reborn at every startup, usually with 600, so if you reboot right after setting them, you basicly clear your settings ÷)
paste your chmod lines into /etc/rc.local to run them at every bootup

Ok sorry it took me awhile to reply back but i was soo busy with getting something to work such as fluxbox i forgot i didnt have sound hehe anyways what do u mean post ur chmod
lines into /etc/rc.local??? sorry

Matt3333

/etc/rc.d/rc.local (sorry about mistyping last time) is meant to be the place for custom bootup settings, this file is run as the last one among the startup scripts at every bootup

you can put your chmod lines into it to ensure they run at every single bootup, so that the reborn devices get set automatically

Ok i dont understand what u mean. what do i put in this file it my file looks like this:

Matt@DarkPunk:~/fluxconf-0.9.5$ cat /etc/rc.d/rc.local
#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/rc.d/rc.local: Local system initialization script.
#
# Put any local setup commands in here:
Matt@DarkPunk:~/fluxconf-0.9.5$

so i what would i put in there inorder for it to reborn my sound card or my isapnp.conf file
sorry Thanx for ur replys

Matt3333

ok, so sound problem

have u tried doing alsaconf yet?

go into a terminal, do su - (enter password), then do alsaconf and follow the instructions

as for /etc/rc.d/rc.local, this is the place where u put commands u want to run automatically at each reboot
for example, u may need to do chmod 666 every time u reboot your computer for your /dev/whatever, but to do it automatically, put those chmod 666 /dev/mixer and whatever else in this file

u don't necessarily have to paste it, just type those commands into the file and save (if using vi, to save do shift ZZ)

after reboot, check the sound devices again, because if you use devfs in your kernel, they have 600 permissions after every bootup, no matter if you have set them to 666 before

this may not be your problem, this is just a hint what _might_ be the problem

if you paste these 2 lines into rc.local:
-----------------------------
chmod 666 /dev/dsp
chmod 666 /dev/mixer
-----------------------------
then these commands will be executed at every bootup, and change the permissions to 666 automatically

every single command you write into rc.local will be executed at bootup, f.i. if you write there 'reboot', then your machine will get stuck in an endless rebooting loop ÷))) [so you better don't do it]

Ok cool i just added chmod 666 /dev/mixer and chmod 666 /dev/dsp into that file right now im just downloading alsa i relized i didnt have it on my computer but before when i had to configure my card i didnt need it anyways im going to restart after i get alsa installed to see if that edit i did in /etc/rc.d/rc.local work. ill post back later and tell u how it went thanx for ur replys

Matt3333

hehe did u find out that the hard way heheh??? Ok i rebooted and still nothing i tried alsaconf and nothing i went through that and nothing. I dunno what to do next ok i went into xmms and i treid it to test to see if it worked and when i went into preferences and i tired playing around wit the output plugin and i notice that the only one that actually will do something meaning start playing through the song is aRts Driver 0.4 [libartsout.so] and i tried alsa one and nope i get the error check blah blah blah any other suggests to try???
thanx for ur replys

Matt3333