You need the alsasound script from the drivers package and do an /wherever/you/put/it/alsasound start that should result in loading the modules. Send me your modules.conf and a copy of lspci output and I'll take a look. Regards, Kerry On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:01:15PM -0500, Joey Weston wrote: > here's my computer setup. > it's a compaq 233 model 4550 with an onboard sound (ess audio drive 1887) > chip and a sound blaster live! pci card. > I can't get into or I don't know how to get to the bios to disable the > onbard sound card. > I'm trying to get alsa to work. > I download alsaconf-0.4.3b.tar.gz from ftp.braille.uwo.ca/pub/linux/goodies > uploaded by ryan mann and it supposedly configured /etc/modules.conf which > when I looked it was configured, but the drivers still don't work. > I've compiled th drivers libs and utils I compiled the drivers about 4 or 5 > times but the libs and utils were unchanged because I didn't think it was > necessary to keep recompiling them. > I've tried the card 0 and card 1 id's for the sound cards and nothing worked. > Does any one have a similar setup to mine? > Also, could I just take the hd the net card and the sb live and get my 486 > upgraded and put the parts into it so it'd only have 1 sound card? > Any suggestions/help would be helpful. > I've had any number of people looking at this thing. > Compaq burning party right? > phone: 4 0 7 3 0 2 97 29 > Thanks. > web site: http://www.westonj.f2s.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or khoath at lis.net.au ICQ UIN: 62823451