Module for ISA Sound Blaster 16 not being loaded on boot

Bug #10882 reported by Colin McDermott
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alsa-driver (Ubuntu)
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Medium
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Bug Description

Hey there. Here is the problem. There is no sound nor any detection of the ISA
sound card.

I have it working in Win 2000 and I think it autodetected though I might have
configured it.

I am very new to linux and I was wondering how do I manually add hardware to the
system?

BTW I am using warty 4.1

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Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote :

Try installing the alsa-base package and, on the command line as root:

    modprobe snd-sb16

Then run a mixer.

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Colin McDermott (colmcd) wrote :

It does not detect the device. The ISA sound card works fine under windows 2000.
I dual boot.

If i do modprobe snd-sb16-csa or dsa it processes but no sound?

Any more tips

(In reply to comment #1)
> Try installing the alsa-base package and, on the command line as root:
>
> modprobe snd-sb16
>
> Then run a mixer.
>
>

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

If your bios has PnP enabled, disable it, then try ,,sudo modprobe snd-sb16
isapnp=0''. Note this module is for fully sb16-compatible cards, not ones that
just emulate portions; such cards will need the snd-sb8 driver.

Barring that, what is the output from ,,lspnp''? (You may need to install the
'pcmcia-cs' package.)

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Colin McDermott (colmcd) wrote :

Ill give it a try.

The sound card is a genuine SB but it is not PNP.

Colin

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postmast3r (postmast3r) wrote :

A friend had the exact same problem with his genuine sound blaster 16 ISA card
on his machine in Ubuntu Linux 5.04 ("Hoary Hedgehog" edition). Even though
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base has a line with "modprobe snd-sb16" in it, for some
reason that fails to activate sound on his system during the boot process, but
typing exactly that in a root terminal after his system is loaded into the GUI
gets sound working.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

(In reply to comment #5)
> A friend had the exact same problem with his genuine sound blaster 16 ISA card
> on his machine in Ubuntu Linux 5.04 ("Hoary Hedgehog" edition). Even though
> /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base has a line with "modprobe snd-sb16" in it, for some
> reason that fails to activate sound on his system during the boot process, but
> typing exactly that in a root terminal after his system is loaded into the GUI
> gets sound working.

Your friend could do the following: echo "snd-sb16" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

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Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote :

> Your friend could do the following: echo "snd-sb16" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

In the absence of further information, let's assume that this is the solution.

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Javier Jardón (jjardon) wrote :

(In reply to comment #3)
> If your bios has PnP enabled, disable it, then try ,,sudo modprobe snd-sb16
> isapnp=0''. Note this module is for fully sb16-compatible cards, not ones that
> just emulate portions; such cards will need the snd-sb8 driver.
>
> Barring that, what is the output from ,,lspnp''? (You may need to install the
> 'pcmcia-cs' package.)

I try this but the sound card is not detected:

$sudo modprobe snd-sb16 isapnp=0
FATAL: Error inserting snd_sb16 (/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sb16.ko):
No such device
FATAL: Error running install command for snd_sb16

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