Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to use my SB16 with Alsa

[Clemens L. <cl...@la...>]

na...@ar... wrote:
> I run alsaconf and the card is found, detected as sb16, then configured,
> and levels adjusted (you may see a terminal window capture of this, 
> below asterisks line).
>         Lsmod shows the corresponding modules loaded, ok. But, the problem is,
> when I reboot after that, nothing happens. Boot window says \\\"Setting up
> ALSA...done (none loaded)\\\".

Does it correctly load when you then run "modprobe snd-card-0"?

> Content of /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, as modified by me (variant #1)
> 
> alias snd-card-0 snd-sb16
> options snd-sb16 index=0 port=0x220
> options snd-sb16 index=0 mpu_port=0x330
> options snd-sb16 index=0 irq=10
> options snd-sb16 index=0 dma8=0
> options snd-sb16 index=0 dma16=5
> options snd-sb16 index=0 mic_agc=1
> options snd-sb16 index=0 csp=1
> options snd-sb16 index=0 isapnp=0

This won't work; later options lines override earlier ones.

> Content of /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, as modified by me (variant #2)
> 
> alias snd-card-0 snd-sb16
> options snd-sb16 index=0 port=0x220 mpu_port=0x330 irq=10 dma8=0 dma16=5 mic_agc=1 csp=1 isapnp=0

This looks OK, but I guess you have to run some tool to merge
the various files in /etc/modprobe.d/ into /etc/modprobe.conf.


HTH
Clemens