Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 70928
GUI Can't Config non-PNP ISA Sound Card
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:03 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020606 Description of problem: redhat-config-soundcard tries to detect a soundcard, but if it fails to detect one, will not let you configure it by hand--you must invent your own /etc/modules.conf entries. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install SoundBlaster clone ISA card, jumpered to particular settings. 2. Run redhat-config-soundcard 3. redhat-config-soundcard displays "No sound card detected" and quits. Actual Results: sndconfig simply crashed upon launching, so it was no help. Ultimately, I ended up piecing together workable /etc/modules.conf entries from newsgroup archives, so it CAN be done. Expected Results: I would have liked to see some of sndconfig's old behavior when autodetect is not possible--choose from the following non-PNP sound card, enter the interrupt, the mio, blah, blah, blah, and hit "test" and hear Linus say "hello." Additional info:
Same problem. With sndconfig I get it into a loop, it says that "An error occurred opening /dev/audio" and returns to the Card Settings window, the Cancel button don't work.
There's no time left for this release to make redhat-config-soundcard work with ISA non-PNP cards. I have to be honest with you, given our current ratio of things that need to be done to engineers actually working on them, I doubt that building support for ISA non-PNP sound cards will ever become a priority. If sndconfig hung or crashed for you, please file a separate bug against that. Thanks for your report.