My machine is a quite old Dell P90 with no PnP-BIOS (or at least the clumsy Dell setup doesn't offer any PnP options) I'm running slink with potato updates, kernel 2.2.2-ac7 Soundcard is a 'Creative ViBRA16X PnP' ISA-card according to pnpdump. As pnpdump only offers me 8-bit DMA channels, I set the first sb-dma to 1 and the second one to channel 3.
Problem 1: ----------- I downloaded the gnome 1.0 rpm-packages from ftp.gnome.org and used alien to create deb-packages and then installed them via dselect. so far so good - gnome looks just fine. Unfortunately after that rvplayer 5.0 stopped working with the error msg: XLib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server XLib: Client is not authorized to connect to server Segmentation fault This error-msg makes no sense to me - i'm absolutely clueless... (I start rvplayer from inside of an xrvt as other x-programs also) Problem 2: ----------- Before rvplayer stopped working I had another problem with it: I'm listing to web-radio, audio only. After a couple of minutes (10-40 min) the player just stops playing - but no net congestion, it just stops. Stopping the connection and restarting it resumes the audio-stream until it stops again with the same symptoms. I don't know if this is a sound driver problem or an rvplayer problem or a net problem. Other players (e.g. x11amp) don't seem to have that problem... Problem 3: ----------- Can't play 16-bit sound! When the sb-modules gets loaded it says invalid dma16 value! (I set it to channel 3) But I don't have dma channels 5 to 7 available - at least according to pnpdump. I tried it and set the module and isapnp configuration to channel 5 but this didn't get 16-bit to work either. To be able to use sound at all I had to disable esd because it only seems to be able to generate a 16-bit output. Is it possible to patch the kernel? I could do so but I don't have any information about the sb16 hardware :( Hope someone can help, Dominique.
