13.3. HardDrake Wizard

13.3.1. Introduction

The HardDrake Wizard is a generic configuration tool. It replaces the former configuration tools etherdrake and sounddrake.

13.3.2. Usage

As an example we'll focus on the Sound-Wizard now.

The Wizard, if available for a certain component class, is launched from HardDrake by pressing Run Configuration Tool. After a few moments, a window like in figure 13-5 should appear.

Figure 13-5. HardDrake - Sound-Wizard

You can change the current selection, but in most cases it is not a good idea, as the detected device is already highlighted. For an ISA card you need to specify I/O and IRQ settings if the values proposed by default are not correct. After checking configuration, press the OK button to test the configuration. Three samples should be played (if MIDI is available and you have a soundcard supporting 16 bit DMA channels). If you didn't hear them without any error message, it may be due to one of the following reasons:

An error message may occur due to the following problems:

If you heard proper samples, you can press OK to confirm the configuration. Check sound configuration by starting some program using sound (specially from a non-root account). After tests, you may reboot your system to check if all modules are loaded correctly at boot time.


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