[plug] Sound card

[Beau Kuiper]

Hi,

Try a PCI audio card. Sound blaster live value for $95, or anything
similar. PCI just seems to just work, while ISA is still a case of plug
and pray and problems.

Have you tried upgrading the kernel to the latest stable version. It may
be a kernel bug in the kernel redhat uses?

Also check your cmos settings. make sure the ISA clock divider is set to 4
or 5, possibly use more conservative settings.

Try a different vidio card even (weird things do happen) if you
can. Maybe it might be the motherboard. PC hardware is notorious for
random incompatibilities.

Good luck
Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Kai wrote:

> OK, lets correct that last one....
> 
> The sound worked fine for about 40 minutes, now I get the same errors as
> always:
> linux kernel: Sound: DMA (input) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> and
> last message repeated [inster number here] times
> 
> Might throw it out the window, that may help the problem.
> 
> Kai wrote:
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Well Beau, your suggestion of pull the card out and shoot it is a good
> > one.
> > I've just shut the machine down, taken out the peice of sh t ESS Audio
> > Drive and put in a geniune Sound Blaster card, and although it's ISA it
> > works great, no problems since boot up and audio's working fine !!
> > 
> > You fella's can log in and have a look if you like ?!
> > http://vk6ksj.javaradio.com !!
> > Thanks for all the help, I often wonder which is worse, trying to
> > configure existing problems or messing around trying replacements ?!
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
> > /Kai
> > 
> > Beau Kuiper wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > > >
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Kai
> > 
> > Like clean air, water and food, earth is a comodity:
> > Take good care of what little there is left.
> 
>