SOUND MODULE INSTALL HOWTO
Aki - aki@akiaki.org
Sat Nov 11 16:53:18 EST 2000

SuSE 6.3

Problem: kerneld and modprobe fails when loading sb.o, but the modules can be loaded successfully manually in the order below.

# Loading order of sound modules:
/sbin/insmod soundcore
/sbin/insmod soundlow
/sbin/insmod sound
/sbin/insmod opl3
/sbin/insmod uart401
/sbin/insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=3 dma16=7 mpu_io=0x330

root@aki: lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
sb                     33460   0
uart401                 6128   0  [sb]
opl3                   11304   0
sound                  57400   0  [sb uart401 opl3]
soundlow                 344   0  [sound]
soundcore               2340   6  [sb sound]
parport_probe           3204   0  (autoclean)
parport_pc              5808   1  (autoclean)
lp                      5828   0  (autoclean)
parport                 6984   1  (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc lp]
nls_iso8859-1           2236   1  (autoclean)
ne                      6620   1  (autoclean)
8390                    6228   0  (autoclean) [ne]
serial                 42932   1  (autoclean)
aha152x                29120   2                              

root@aki: cat /proc/sound OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux 2.2.13 #1 Mon Nov 8 15:51:29 CET 1999 i586 Config options: 0

Installed drivers:

Card config:

Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.13) (DUPLEX)

Synth devices:

Midi devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16

Timers:
0: System clock

Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster