Re: sound card woes

[Rob Benson <rbenson ihl state ms us>]

Thanks for the tip Bob.  Now it installs sound, yeah!
One minor glitch: the system sounds in KDE still don't play automatically.  Is
this because KDE doesn't support my system or something else?

On Tue, 01 Feb
2000, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:54:35AM -0600, Rob
Benson wrote: > > Hi Paul and thanks for considering my question. > > 
> > At bootup, it reads "loading sound module can't locate module sound"
> > 
> > The /var/log/messages file contains, in part:
> > Feb  1 09:52:04 rob rc.sysinit: Finding module dependencies succeeded 
> > Feb  1 09:52:04 rob modprobe: can't locate module sound 
> > Feb  1 09:52:04 rob rc.sysinit: Loading sound module failed 
> > 
> > 
> > In case this information might be helpful:
> > The exact entry in /etc/conf.modules is "alias sound maestro" (without the
> > quotation marks).
> > 
> > The sound files that I unzipped are "makefile," "maestro.c," "maestro.h,"
> > and " maestro.o" and are all located in /root/maestro-19991118/
> 
> I think you need to copy maestro.o to
> /lib/modules/<kernel_version>/misc/
> 
> On my RH6.1 system that is /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc.
> 
> >  --  
> > Rob Benson
> > Service Learning Coordinator
> > Mississippi Commission for Volunteer Service
> > rbenson ihl state ms us
> > http://www.mcvs.org
> 
> Cheers,
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Rob Benson
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