Re: Soundblaster AWE 64: potato package update wrecked sound
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Berthold Cogel wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I had a working sound configuration until last weekend with Debian 2.2,
> Kernel 2.2.17 and Soundblaster AWE 64 Gold.
> Then I decided to update my system from potato-stable (about 32
> packages/25 MB). Since the next reboot the module sb wants to use IRQ7
> and sound isn't working anymore.
> This happened before after I updated my system from Debian 2.1 to Debian
> 2.2. I did a lot of things like disabling the BIOS support for PNP
> Operating Systems, building a kernel without sound, disabling isapnp,
> deleting modules.conf. Just like a blind chicken looking for food :-(.
> Somehow I managed to revive the sound.
>
> This time I updated only some packages. I didn't change the sound
> configuration!
Did you modify the modules.conf directly or did you use the
/etc/modutils/sound file? You should always put sound related modules.conf
stuff into /etc/modutils/sound and run update-modules.
dar
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