[PLUG] Monorail 3D Audio

[Daniel Hedlund]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 20:59, someone <plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
> Is there a special driver for onboard Monorail 3D Audio or a way to force the
> module snd_opti93x to load for it?  Slackware 13.1 detects the onboard sound
> as Monorail 3D Audio and sets up loading of opti93x, but when I try to load
> the module by hand I Slackware 13.1  get an error that the equipment doesn't exist.

For additional context, Michael asked this question a couple times
earlier last year:
http://www.mail-archive.com/plug@lists.pdxlinux.org/msg04467.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/plug@lists.pdxlinux.org/msg05506.html

It's apparently an ISA-based sound card and he was getting Kernel
oopses at the time...


Michael,

What has changed on your end since last year?  It appears you've
upgraded to a newer version of slackware (10.1 -> 13.1) and I assume
the kernel is no longer oopsing like it was before?  Did you ever
follow Wes's suggestions regarding looking into the BIOS or swapping
out the board that provides a PCMCIA port with another sound card?

If Slackware is detecting and setting up the sound card for you, is
there something wrong with how it's currently doing it?  What error
messages are you seeing?

What command are you using the load the module by hand?  Are you
specifying the IRQ and I/O address manually (i.e. modprobe opti93x
io=... irq=...) or are you relying on isapnp?

Can you provide any relevant snippets from programs or files such as
dmesg, lspci, /etc/isapnp.conf, lsmod, sndstat or alsaconf?  If your
version of ALSA is new enough, you might be able to get most of this
info by running "alsa-info" instead.


Cheers,

Daniel Hedlund
daniel at digitree.org