Dear Jonathan, Well, I very much appreciate your help, but I've managed to make the situation worse, possibly as a result of misinterpreting your directions... I've loaded the modules (using modconf) per your specifications with two deviations: Awe-wave was still claiming to be unable to locate the AWE device so I passed it the same parameter that you had suggested for the opl3 module, which made the module load suucessfully. This caused even more problems down the road (I'll talk about them later). Next, soundcore sounded pretty important, so I loaded that on the tail end of the process, which was probably a bad idea (though the results still seem to be the same). Anyway, here are the results of my changes: --- sound Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.13/modules.dep sb Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.13/modules.dep Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.16 detected OK (220) SB16: Bad or missing 16 bit DMA channel soundlow Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.13/modules.dep awe_wave Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.13/modules.dep <SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM0k)> Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.13/modules.dep modprobe: insmod * failed ---- An important note: I had to hit ^C to get the boot process past its attempts to load awe-wave, which I'd interpret to mean that the explicit passing of the MIDI device location (which is what I assmue the address was for) was a bad idea. In any case, I still get the "bad DMA channel" message, so I'll need to try something else ;-) You had mentioned that the problem may be isapnp-related. I've just updated my isapnp tools and made a new dump file (which I've attached). The only difference seems to be that isapnp reports on used IRQs when it executes... I am totally unfamiliar with isapnp (I run it and cross my fingers, basically), so I'm not sure if it's set up correctly. It does report finding a board, and since the sb card is my only isa pnp device, I assume that was what was found. My next stab at the problem will be to try my isapnp.conf from my Mandrake partition. Any more suggestions would be welcomed ;-) Thanks, -Chris __________________________________________________ FREE Email for ALL! Sign up at http://www.mail.com
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