Vibra16 - UNCLE (I give up!)

[peeps_59]

I need some help. I have had RH7.3 on my puter for about three weeks now. I couldn't get the sound to work that was built into the motherboard (cs4235), so I gave up on that, disabled it, and stuck a SoundBlaster Vibra16 I had laying around in an ISA slot. I have followed the ~/Documentation/sound/vibra instructions and I'm close. Sometimes I can play 2 or 3 wave files before problems start; sometimes not even one file... The problem is that the computer seems to pause, and the mouse freezes for 3-5 seconds, then moves again, then freezes again, etc. It does this until I close the XMMS window.

I have looked at /proc/interrupts and the irq is 5 (that is correct). I have looked at /proc/ioports and they are all correct. When I looked at /proc/dma it only showed one of my dma channels (#1) and dma16 (#3) is absent.

modules.conf is as follows:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 8139too

alias sound-slot-0 sb
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
options sound dmabuf=1
alias synth0 opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3 mpu_io=0x330

isapnp.conf is as follows:
READPORT 0x0203)
(IDENTIFY *)
(VERBOSITY 2)
(CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
# SB 16 and OPL3 devices
(CONFIGURE CTL00f0/-1 (LD 0
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 3))
(IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220))
(IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388))
(NAME "CTL00f0/-1[0]{Audio }")
(ACT Y)
))

One other thing I noticed. When running lsmod right after boot, there is no opl3 listed. Why is it not there?

Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to give you all the information I possess.

TIA

[Piix4]

Two things.

First off you should be trying to get your original sound card working.

Secondly, you need to set either dma=0 (or) dma16=0 I think.
Now don't quote me on that, but I think setting either or to 0 should to the trick.

Piix4.

[peeps_59]

Any specific reason why I should go back to the Crystal Sound 4235? Is it a better sound vehicle?

Thanks

[Piix4]

Err yes if you don't have hardware failure, then it is simply a matter of configuring your drivers etc.

A sufficient amount of intervention on your part should negate having to use different hardware.... unless you do have a hardware problem.