[lug] Via Tech. audio cards?

[D. Stimits]

One thing about describing hardware, is that this is a description of
your onboard codec, not the sound card itself. You might want to take a
closer look at the sound card itself to find out what model it is. Just
guessing, the sb abbreviation probably means soundblaster.

Device or resource busy could mean that something else is already using
it, but when this occurs at bootup it more likely means that the
hardware has not been initialized. There is a strong possibility that
the io=0x220 or irq=7 or dma values are incorrect. To find out more
about this, you'll want to know if this is an isa slot card or pci; if
it is isa, see if it is plug-n-pray, or jumper set. If it is
plug-n-pray, go into your bios at bootup and be certain that the option
"o/s is plug-n-play aware" is set to NOT. Try again.

"Scott A. Herod" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>   Does anyone have experience with Via Technologies audio cards?  I've
> got a new machine (RH6.2) with what sndconfig reports as Via
> Technologies
> VT82C686 Apollo Super AC97/Audio hardware.  sndconfig adds lines to
> conf.modules saying:
> 
> alias sound-slot-0 via86cxxx
> options sb support=1
> 
> sndconfig then locks up the box when it gets to the point where it
> tries to play a sound.  The machine also locks up when booting when
> it gets to the point where it tries to load the sound modules.
> 
> If I "modprobe -v via86cxxx" it reports that it fails with a "device or
> resource busy" when it attempts to call insmod with
> 
> /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sb.o io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1
> dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
> 
> /var/log/messages reports:  "sb: dsp reset failed."
> 
> The interrupt is not already used, /dev/audio* and /dev/dsp* are owned
> by root ( which I am running as when I try to load the modules ).  The
> memory locations do not appear to be in use.
> 
> Any suggestions?  It is somewhat distressing that at boot-time it
> freezes
> even if it cannot load the appropriate modules.  Where are the insmod
> options for sb.o found if not in /etc/conf.modules?  ( There is no
> modules.conf file. )
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott
> 
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