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> Thank you Sindi for your kind welcome. I had seen the links and i have found
> the way (i think) to change the keyboard to spanish. Now i have another

Good work.

> problem, i have a phillips pca761aw sound card in the old pentium 133 MHz
> and i have tried to make it to work but i can´t with the tips seen in bl3. I
> always obtain dsp reset failed, insmod:init_module: sb: device  or resource
> busy any number i tru for irq (i have tried 5 and 10) or dma (1 or 3). I

This means that your sound card does not use the same driver as 
Creative Soundblaster (sb.o).  The BL instructions are only for 
Soundblaster.

According to Wikipedia, your card is a clone of Gravis Ultrasound , using 
the Gravis GF1 or AMD Interwave soundchip.  They don't say which of the 
two chips your card used.  The GF1 was a competitor of Soundblaster and 
used digitized samples instead of FM synthesis to play MIDI files. 
Soundblaster AWE cards use digitized samples too, which you need to load 
into the card before you can use it to play MIDI files.  But you probably 
just want to make it play wav or mp3 files.

> went to alsa project page and there they say alsa project support this sound
> card, i have read the instructions but i haven´t understand very much. Any
> way, is there a way to know the irq or dma parameters for a determined sound
> card?

BL does not use ALSA drivers, it uses OSS drivers.

I searched on Gravis Ultrasound (gus) and OSS, or just oss and ultrasound.

Try:

insmod soundcore
insmod sound
insmod ad1848
insmod gus io=* irq=* dma=* dma16=*

Try io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 dma16=3

It should complain if a number is wrong.

The dma16 is optional but you might need it for mp3s.

BL3.5 site has a gus.o module for 2.2.26 kernel.

> Thanks and regards
> Clara
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> To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 8:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [BL] changing the keyboard configuration
>
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>
>
> Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> > I have just installed BL3.50 on an old p133Mhz, 16 Mb RAM, 1Gb hard
> > drive. For now, everything is ok, the cdrom is recognized and fully
> > working. But i would like to change the keyboard configuration to the
> > spanish one, i have the file es.map but i don´t Know how to install it
> > as default keyboard and where to copy it. Also i have to say i am a
> > newbie in linux, so i would be very grateful if someone could give me a
> > step by step explanation.
>
> links, BL3.50 website, Support, Archives, search on 'keyboard spanish'.
> I got 7 hits from May 2004 to March 2005, with mention of es.map.
>
> Other people have used Spanish and French and German keyboards with
> basiclinux, so also search on 'change keyboards'.  I don't know if the
> method is different for console and X keyboards like it is for fonts.
>
> See for Spanish (among other hits):
>
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux/2005-March/006818.html
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux/2004-December/006078.html
>
> You probably need kbd.tgz Slackware package, which comes with
> instructions.  You can also change the console screen font
>
> > Thanks in advance, Clara
>
> Welcome to basiclinux, Clara.  I think you are the only other woman in
> the group besides me, in nearly 10 years!
>
> Please try to set your mail program to send plain text WITHOUT a second
> copy of the message in HTML format.  You probably don't see both copies,
> but some programs display the HTML and it wastes space in mailboxes and
> adds nothing useful.  Look under preferences, options, etc.  Most 'modern'
> mail programs are idiotic and send HTML by default.
>
> Sindi (Cynthia)
>
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