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[Martijn.van.den.Burg@xxxxxxx (Martijn van den Burg)]

Hi Hing,

From: Hing <hing@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> I have sent out a message to this list before asking for help, but
> didn't get any response, so I'm trying again.
> 
> I have a Creative Lab Sound Blaster 16 and Suse 6.1 installed.
> I'm trying to setup the sound, but can't make it work.
> I follow the book and try
> 
> /sbin/modprobe sb io=0x0220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x0330
> but it didn't do anything because I typed lsmod, and nothing
> seems to have been loaded.
> 
> What did I do wrong?
> 
> Any help will be much appreciated!  Please send direct email
> to hing@xxxxxxxx so that I can be sure to get the email.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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I do not have the SB16 (yet, it'll arrive tomorrow) but I did some
preporatory work on how to install it and found the answer in the SuSE
list archive (March '99 threads): 

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Re: [SuSE Linux] SoundBlaster 16

      To: matt <matt@xxxxxxxxx> 
      Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] SoundBlaster 16 
      From: zentara <zentara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
      Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 07:58:46 -0500 

matt wrote:
> 
> Anyone have any instructions on setting up a sound blaster 16-bit isa card
> in SuSE 6?
> 

There is a help file in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound.

If you have the standard suse kernel and modules in there,
you probably just need to set up isapnp for it. I'm guessing
it's a pnp card.
Do a  
pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf

Then edit the /etc/isapnp.conf file to give
the irq and io ports. Try to use irq5, as this
will be better for your printer if you move to
a newer 2.2.* series kernel.

Then put those entries in /etc/conf.modules
such as
alias char-major-14 sound
alias sound  sb
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330

Those are good numbers for an awe32, you may need to change
those for a plain sb16.

Then just do a 
modprobe sb
to turn sound on

The kernel or kerneld should autoload sound
if that feature is enabled.

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