Subj : Installing sound driver for Opti 931 card on Redhat 9
To   : comp.os.linux
From : swift
Date : Fri Jul 16 2004 05:34 am

Can anyone help me with manually installing a driver for a Opti 931
sound card that is not automatically supported by RH9?  The OS
detects the ISA card and lists its parameters in /proc/isapnp
but there apparently is no driver that handles it, as
redhat-config-sound indicates.  Supposedly, the driver for the mad16,
which is Opti 931 based, should be able to run this card.

I got the isapnptools and ran pnpdump to create /etc/isapnp.conf,
which is used to feed isapnp to figure out if the parameters are
good.  I then ran 'modprobe mad16' after modifying /etc/module.conf
with the mad16 entries, including the port/dma/irq parameters.
The modprobe returns no errors (after I tweaked some irq values).
The /proc/isapnp file seems to indicate the newly selected values
properly.  However, it doesn't seem that anything really happened,
as /dev/sndstat and /dev/dsp* still have nothing hooked to them.
Did I load the mad16 module at all?

BTW, the preferences->sound->sound_events stuff don't cause any sound
output to the speaker.

Thanks for any help.

PL
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