Chris - I've been having similar problems with a SB32AWE card. I could occasionaly get it to work by configuring it with YAST2, but it would not work after rebooting. I've decided to go back to using kernel support and skip using ALSA. I at least have a working card now, although there are a few things to work out yet. There seems to be up to date documentation in the /usr/src/linux/Documentation directory. Good luck. Harry On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Chris Carlen wrote:
Hi:
I have a Pentium 3 system with ISA-PnP SB16 card. It works fine under Suse 7.0 using ALSA. I have also compiled my own generic kernel 2.2.18 for Suse 7.0, and compiled ALSA 0.9 beta driver source package, and they work fine under 7.0
However, the SB16 card doesn't work under 7.1, using either Suse's attempt at configuring the soundcard under Yast2 or when I compiled my own generic 2.2.18 and ALSA 0.9beta under 7.1
All the drivers appear to load fine. Output of lsmod on the 7.1 system shows a long list of snd-* drivers, although a few items on the lsmod output in the 7.0 system are not in the 7.1 list. I am not sure if this is the issue or not. No error is indicated when modprobe snd-card-sb16.
What is wrong is that even though the drivers are present (and yes I turned up the mixer) they simply don't play. Any process that tries to play sound hangs. For example, the aplay process that KDE initiates on startup to play the startum song, it just hangs. ps shows it sitting there an hour after KDE started. Xmms just hangs. It's broken.
First I'd like to know if anyone else is aware of SB16 problems on Suse 7.1 and is there an obvious fix? If not, where might I go from here to debug this?
Thanks.