[plug] Sound card

[Beau Kuiper]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Kai wrote:

> G'day all,
> 
> Here's the situation:
> 
> I run a JavaRadio server - a live, tunable radio scanner that has
> streaming audio.
> For those who wanna know, it uses an Icom IC-PCR1000 all mode, 0.30 -
> 1300 Mhz scanning receiver.
> When my Linux machine is online (nearly 24/7 but not quite...), it can
> be reached at http://vk6ksj.javaradio.com
> Due to the idiots over the road at a construction site (worksafe would
> have a pink fit if they saw how these guys worked...), we had a power
> surge at my house about a month ago and....I had to upgrade the server
> form RH 5.2 to RH 6.2 to even manage to get a boot prompt.
> 
> Now I have a problem, when I try to start my audio encoder, I get this
> from /var/log/messages:
> linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0064

hmmm, sounds like something to do with the miscellanious program loader in
the kernel looking for the module to run your program. This probably
didn't make any sense :-)

> 
> I'm not a Linux expert and I've really got no idea how to fix this
> problem...
> I am using an ISA ESS1688 Audio Drive.

Pull that card out and SHOOT it! It probably won't fix your problem, but
you will feel better with a better sounding card :-)

That is if your experience with ESS was as shocking as mine. (They were
really really bad!)

> 
> Would anyone have any ideas how to fix this problem? if so, I'll need a
> newbie style explanation on how to do it.
> Hahahaa, about the only thing I know how to do on Linux is get IPChains
> working, modify some stuff for Apache and get SMV to share
> resources....not a helluva lot when compared to your guys but I gotta
> start somewhere and with my current lack of time learning stuff with
> Linux is limited, unfortunately !!

You don't sound half stupid :-). Sounds like if you can configure
IPChains, and configure Apache, you are well on your way to becoming a
guru.

Good luck with your problem.

Still crispy 
Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.u

> 
> Many thanks in advance.
>