[ale] lost sound via isa-pnp module

[Keith Hopkins]

mbarker68 at home.com wrote:

> While attempting to get a parallel port scanner running on Mandrake 8.1
> I lost my sound.
> 
> All I did was load the sane and gimp plugin packages and run "kudzu". 
> When this didn't work I rebooted to windows because I needed OCR anyway. 
> When I came back to Mandrake I had no sound and upon running sndconfig
> it returned 
> 
> The following error occurred running the modprobe program:
>    
> /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz:                  
> init_module: No such device                                  
>     /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: insmod
>     /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz failed
>     /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: insmod
>     sound-slot-0 failed
> 
> The module sb.o.gz is there and sndconfig did recognize my sb16 card.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to fix this and ideas on what might have happened
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> -Michael
> 


Interesting...  I've never seen a distro that used compressed (.gz) modules.  Is anyone besides Mandrake 8.1 doing this?

Just a guess Michael, but I'd bet you now have an IRQ or some type of IO conflit on your SB card. (If it really is an old ISA SB.)  Thank you PnP.

Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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