[ale] sndconfig question

[Robert Heaven]

Recently installed Mandrake 8.1 and everything works fine except the 
sound. I have an old isapnp sound card that has a Crystal CS4237B chip 
on it.

The first time I ran sndconfig it failed on the first step saying it 
couldn't find /dev/audio. I found a device called /dev/sound/audio so I 
did a ln -s /dev/sound/audio /dev/audio and then sndconfig was able to 
get through the first step and I could also play music CD's. (odd part 
is my /dev/audio symlink disappears every time I reboot)

The second step of sndconfig tries to set up a midi player but it's 
giving me an error on the "modprobe of opl3" saying "no such device" but 
it won't say what device it's looking for. The odd part here is I can 
manually do a "modprobe opl3" and I get no response of any kind, error 
or otherwise, and it does nothing.

I looked at the docs on the Mandrake and Red Hat web site (and the man 
page) trying to find some help with sndconfig but all the docs said was 
"if sndconfig doesn't work, give up".

Anyone ever conquered this beast?


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