> OK, looking at your /dev/sndstat again, I see that you didn't configure > any audio devices.
Yes, I think this is the problem. But I have no idea what kind of audio devices the on motherboard YAMAHA OPL 3-SAx chip belongs to. All the info I have is that it's "audio device for YAMAHA OPL 3-SAx ..." > I'm not familiar with your sound card, but if it's a > Sound Blaster-compatible, you'll need to select "Sound Blaster support" > or somesuch. OPL3 is a MIDI-to-audio interface I believe. > I did try to configure it with "Sound Blaster support". I put 5 for the sound blaster IRQ (Win95 shows the IRQ is 5), but I got the following error when issued "insmod sound": sb: Interrupt test on IRQ5 failed - device disabled Thanks for your help. regards xiaonan