Re: tlug: ESS 1879 sound chip not recognized under TL kernel 2.0.35

[Howard Abbey <habbey@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> No, it's me.  I'm just hoping that somebody might have seen this before.  I
> don't have time to do anything about it personally for a while.
> 
> The message is "couldn't initialize /dev/dsp".  After that all the
> modules give "device busy".  Hmm.  I'd better check that I _have_
> /dev/dsp.  (Sorry, Scott.)

Amazing what more details can do.  Yep, I have seen this one before,
with TurboLinux 2.0j, and a SB AWE 64.  I don't know the exact cause,
but I figured out a 'fix' for my case.  

I get those errors whenever my sound card is initialized by isapnp. 
Since
I don't have any other PNP ISA cards, my quick fix (once I found the 
problem) was to add a line at the top of /etc/isapnp.conf (which is a 
symlink to somewhere else, but not important).  As the first line, I
have
forced-err
which, believe it or not, gives isapnp an err when it runs on boot-up, 
causing it to give up trying to initialize my sound card.  Then
everything
works fine.  (A fix by breaking something, ain't it great!)

I could have just disabled isapnp in the rc.d/rc... file, but I figured 
later either I'd forget, or someday someone would fix it.  (Maybe now,
Scott?)

-- 
Howard
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