[techtalk] sound card help

[Chris Ritsert]

thanks for your awsome response...I will check out the Bugzilla site!
-----Original Message-----
From: Telsa Gwynne <hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk>
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Date: Monday, December 20, 1999 5:44 AM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] sound card help


>Disclaimer: I know nothing about sound cards. My machine is a Cyrix
>MediaGX which has 'on-board sound', whatever that means. When I
>eventually got a proper soundcard for it, I broke sndconfig, too :)
>
>Chris said (at various times :))
>> The following error occured running the isapnp program:   Don't know what
>> do with CONFIGURE CTL0044/269079066 (LD2 on or around Line 346
>> /etc/isapnp.conf:346--fatal-error occured parsing config file - no action
>> taken
>[munch]
>> Telsa, the version is Red Hat 6.0.  I just went to a console, said setup
and
>> chose the sound card option.  It looked really easy, it even had my sound
>> card listed.  I believe I got this error when the sound test came up.
Any
>> help/ideas would be appreciated.
>
>Well, when it's Red Hat, my first idea is usually to check RH's Bugzilla
>to see if someone else has reported it too.
>
>Bugzilla is where people are encouraged to report problems with the
>software. It's not tech support, really, but if there's a fix, they'll
>tell you, and if they fix the relevant they'll tell you. (Bugzilla is
>just the name of the bug reporting and tracking software, btw. It grew
>out of the Mozilla project and other groups, including RH, now use it to
>track their own bugs too.)
>
>Red Hat's Bugzilla database is at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
>(well, it is at the moment: RH seem to move things a lot, but that
>one stays reasonably consistent). To report bugs, you need to get
>yourself a login and password (fill in the online form.) You don't
>need to be a 'registered Red Hat user' who bought a CD and filled
>in some form with that to use it. I mention this cos I think some
>people think that :) You can use it whether you bought RH or downloaded
>it off the net.
>
>If you just want to search bugzilla, I don't think you need a
>login/password.
>
>Anyway, the search form is a bit hairy with Lynx but fine with Netscape.
>I clicked on every possible bug resolution (notabug, duplicated, etc),
>left everything else empty, and selected 'setup' and 'sndconfig' from
>the software list. I got a list of about 60 reports mentioning one or
>the other, from RH 5.x on up, so I'll summarise :)
>
>There are at least three people with AWE 32 problems. One bug was
>closed cos the person didn't get back to them, but it sounded similar.
>Someone else invoked sndconfig three different ways (via installation,
>via setup and via sndconfig) and only one of them worked :) And
>another doesn't have AWE 32 in the subject line: it's bug 1640, and
>it turned into quite a saga which I'm afraid I daren't summarise as
>I don't understand it. It starts off with "it doesn't work the first
>time you run it", and then just continues on and on :)
>
>Bug 4643 reports the same format of error message you got, though
>with slightly different numbers. The suggestion was to upgrade to
>the latest isapnptools from Rawhide (this is a section on their
>ftp site where they put the latest versions of packages and brave
>people try 'em out). The person who sent the report didn't reply
>on whether that helped. They were running RH 6.0, too.
>
>You could always report this to bugzilla. When you do, you get
>an odd-format message back which shows you what's been entered.
>Any responses in email come back in a 'unified diff' format: this
>means that they print out any lines which are now different with +
>and - signs in them to show what changed, and if something has been
>added, they'll put a few lines for context and then just show
>the new stuff. I mention this because when I first saw this stuff
>I just stared, frankly :) To see the whole thing you can always look
>on the website. You can respond either via email or via the web. If
>you do, it's perhaps worth getting the latest isapnptools, trying
>after upgrading that, and mentioned that you tried the fix from
>bug 4643 and it didn't work.
>
>Reporting bugs via bugzilla is like reporting things to the gnome
>bug tracker (which came from Debian's bug-tracker, btw :)). It's
>a bit off-putting at first, but you get the hang of it, and it
>can be very useful to know how to at least search the database.
>
>I encourage everyone to report everything because then I don't
>feel so silly about reporting typos in man pages and comments in
>config files :) It could be worse: I know someone who reports
>misspellings in /usr/dict/words...
>
>Digression aside, I hope this helps.
>
>Telsa (who does have reasons for reporting trivia, honest!)
>
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