[kencronin]

When starting up Mandrake 10.1 (or when trying to configure directly using Hardrake) I get a warning message telling me that the sound server encountered an error opening /dev/dsp (no such device/directory, I think) and is setting output to /nul instead.

Does anyone know how to solve this ?

[tdi_veedub]

What make/model of soundcard are you trying to configure? It sounds like you need to load the kernel modules for your sound card

[kencronin]

Thanks for replying. Part of the problem is that it's an old ISA card. I picked the box up second hand without any documentation. The motherboard is an ASUS SP97-XV. I have a couple of 3G hard drives installed as well as an old Voodoo Banshee (PCI) graphics card. But the sound card came with the unit and I cannot find any distinguishing brand or text on the card. Maybe I should just thow it away and get a PCI card instead.

[tsunam]

have you tried a lspci to see if it shows up? Not sure if lspci pulls up ISA since i've never had to deal with a isa card under linux.

[kencronin]

Yup. Tried that but lspci doesn't list it (it looks like it only lists PCI)

[tsunam]

well there's only about 3 things it can be

soundblaster (unlikely)
Gravis (more likely)
Cirrus Logic (most likely)
I guess from there you can go through the kernel/sound setup and try and see if/what works for you?

Since i assume you don't have a laisa

[kencronin]

Thanks for the info. I'll play over the weekend and see what I can do.

Just a little extra info that may be relevant. A similar box shows a OPL3-SAx card. I'll work with that as a possibility. I've rund sndconfig and identified the card as an OPL3-SAx but still without luck. It want's me to tell it what dip switch settings are on the card for things like IRQ and io etc. but as far as I can tell there are not dip switches on the card.