PCI NewSound SC128

[xs411]

I'm having trouble with getting sound to work on slackware with a 128 bit soundcard.

Ok... I did cat /proc/pci and here's what it said:
Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: S3 SonicVibes (rev 0).
Medium devsel. IRQ 4. Master Capable. Latancy=64.
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001].
I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401].
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801].
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01].
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
ok, now what? I know that I need to use IRQ 4, but that's about it. Additional information. I already diabled PNP OS. My Linux is SlackWare and I'm using an AMD 450Mhz processor with 128MB of Ram. Anything else you need to know?

Help is much appreciated.

xs411

[Bernd]

Please have a look at http://www.alsa-project.org.
The soundcardmatrix shows that your card is supported. So download the alsa drivers, libraries and utils and install as described in the README files.

Of course, if your soundcard is also supported by the oss kernel drivers you could modprobe the corresponding module and see if it works.
But my experience shows that compiling this module into the kernel is the easiest and best way.

As much as I know slack has no sndconfig or something like this.

Bernd

[xs411]

Thanks I appreciate your knowledge. I'll tell youif it works.

XS411