[ale] Problems with a sound card.

[Linux Idiot]

Michael S. Donelan wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone.
> 
>         First off, let me say that I am a new Linux user, but not unfamiliar with
> Unix. I love the group and find it extremely helpful.
> 
>         Recently I installed Red Hat 5.0 on an old 33MHz 486DX. I though it would
> be fun to add a sound card for Doom and other games, plus to hack around
> and generally waste time. The card I installed is a Digital Research
> Advanced 16-bit plug and play sound card. I tried the sndconfig program,
> but got a segmentation fault. When I ran it with the --noprobe option, it
> simply didn't work. the file /etc/isapnp.conf, which according to the
> manual, is not written, nor does it exist.

You need to get the isapnp utilities.  They're available on the install
cdrom.  On 5.0 RH, they're
/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/isapnptools-1.11-4.i386.rpm

> 
>         As I mentioned before, the sound card is a Digital Research 16 bit pnp
> card. The settings on the card are the following:
> 
>         I/O port                220
>         DMA-1           1
>         DMA-2           3
>         IRQ             5
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
>                                 Mike Donelan

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