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On Thu, 13 May 1999, John Kirkland wrote:
>     I'm now suffering from a lack of success with the sndconfig utility. I
> have an old AWE32 Value, set up at:
>     IRQ    7
>     DMAL   1
>     DMAH   5
>     MPU    330
>     I emphasise, it *has* worked under RH5.2 with these settings (even last
> night!) but now reports an error when attempting to play Linus' famous
> 'Leenix' sample...;)  The error goes something like 'Error accessing
> /dev/audio'. Now, /dev/audio (as well as /dev/audio1) exists, but it beats
> me what's gone wrong.
> That's all folks!
> John Kirkland  | PGP RSA 0xA94DEA4F |   I thought,
> Derby, England | PGP DH 0x823F7451  | therefore I was...
> 
First try:
cat /dev/sndstat
(or cat /dev/sndstat | more )
to see if the devices are alive, if they aren't try
lsmod
(to see if sound has been loaded - it has to be a module for AWE cards)
if not loaded do
modprobe -a sound
then repeat the cat /dev/sndstat and the devices should be there and
the sample should play.

NOTE: You can't have sound support in the kernel, it has to be a module
and you can ony load it after running isapnp or some utility to setup the
PNP AWE32.