On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 08:50, Ben Stallings wrote: > Hello again, folks. Here I am with another remedial question... > > My machine has sound built into the motherboard with the SiS 7018 chipset. > Windows 98 required a special driver (provided with the motherboard) before > it would recognize the chip, but Mandrake 8.1 recognized it right away. > Unfortunately it doesn't work. I found a tip online where someone said to > use the command "modprobe trident" to configure the thing, but when I try it > I get the following: > > /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/trident.o.gz: init_module: No > such device > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including > invalid IO or IRQ parameters > /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/trident.o.gz: insmod > /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/trident.o.gz failed > /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/trident.o.gz: insmod trident > failed > > I'm afraid I need more of a "hint" than that. Suggestions? --Ben > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > My own limited experience with Linux and outre hardware suggests that the best and cheapest course is, generally, to just buy a standard part. (My wife's machine, for example, recognizes its old NE2000 compatible NIC card under Windows, but not under Mandrake -- so we picked up a cheap Intel card. This would have been a smarter move if I'd just done it in the first place, rather then spending hours and hours trying to get the old card to work.) -- ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------