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Sound Woes



I have successfully configured sound on a couple of Debian boxes, but
only as a result of hit&miss luck. On this box with an AudioPCI 64
(Ensonique 1371 I believe), I haven't had any success.

A LOT of the problem is that I just don't comprehend what's necessary to
get sound working. Reading the HOWTOs hasn't helped (obviously, or I
wouldn't be posting).

When I run "make menuconfig", I specified that sound support should be
loaded as a module, and that the Ensonique 1371 should be loaded as a
module. Do I also need to load the OSS drivers? Or are they only needed
if the sound card is not listed in the list above the OSS drivers (which
is what I understood to be the case)?

Do I need the isapnp package? I have never had to install it on the
other Debian boxes I've gotten sound to work on, but then it may have
been installed as part of the "gee-whiz" selections during the initial
install, which I bypassed on this box. I thought that if the BIOS was
set to "PnP OS = No" that the BIOS would take care of assigning IRQs,
etc. Am I mistaken in this belief?

If I do need the isapnp package, can anyone give me a two-sentence
summary of how it works (like: find out what IRQ, etc your card uses via
<whatevermethod>, write those settings to isapnp.conf like
"SB16Compat=5,7,1,off", and finally run isapnp)?

Thanks for any help!


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