After reading the kernel docs I kinda thought I had things figured out but maybe not....
One poster mentioned that they started their sound card with: modprobe sb irq=5 io=0x220 dma=1 As far as I understand from the docs, if I configure everything as modules and enable kerneld, then no conf.modules tinkering or insmod/rmmod stuff should be necessary. I should only need to run modprobe with suitable args as part of the system startup scripts. >From what I can remember of configuring my SB16 PNP with isapnp and the 2.0.x kernels (it's been a loooong time...) these were also the settings I used and I use kerneld so the above line should work, and _almost_ did, but at least makes things less broken. I'll explain. About a day after upgrading to 2.2.1, I started getting "out of disk space" errors, so I deleated a huge number files and about a day later I got more of these errors and found out that /var/log/daemon.log had swollen close to 80MB and /var/log/syslog.0 had swollen to 33MB. Now running the above modprobe line stops these error messages (as far as I can tell so far), and after doing it I can cat a *.au file to /dev/audio and the first second of it or so plays and then it stops. After loading x11amp (which fails to play at all) and then shutting it down, subsequent attempts to cat a *.au file to /dev/audio result in bash: /dev/audio: Device or resource busy I don't know how to how free /dev/audio again, or what the problem is. The relevent lines from my .config for the kernel are: CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m All appears well to me as far as other system info, unless /dev/sndstat should list additional devices other than the Sound Blaster 16 (???): bash-2.01$ /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by sb 30772 2 ppp_deflate 38516 0 (autoclean) bsd_comp 3468 1 (autoclean) uart401 5588 2 [sb] sound 54456 0 (autoclean) [sb uart401] soundcore 2084 5 (autoclean) [sb sound] serial 16840 2 (autoclean) unix 9988 43 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2024 4 (autoclean) nls_cp437 3548 4 (autoclean) st 23320 0 (unused) ppp 17712 2 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp] slhc 4136 1 [ppp] vfat 11304 4 fat 23640 4 [vfat] bash-2.01$ cat /dev/sndstat OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 Load type: Driver loaded as a module Kernel: Linux HAL 2.2.1 #1 Mon Feb 1 03:07:32 PST 1999 i586 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Card config: Audio devices: 0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.13) Synth devices: Midi devices: Timers: 0: System clock Mixers: 0: Sound Blaster Sigh... damn unix, Christopher
