modprobe sound insmod uart401 insmod sb ... This loads the driver for the Sound Blaster and assorted clones. Cards that are covered by other drivers should not be using this driver. The Sound Blaster module takes the following arguments io I/O address of the Sound Blaster chip (0x220,0x240,0x260,0x280) irq IRQ of the Sound Blaster chip (5,7,9,10) dma 8-bit DMA channel for the Sound Blaster (0,1,3) dma16 16-bit DMA channel for SB16 and equivalent cards (5,6,7) mpu_io I/O for MPU chip if present (0x300,0x330) mad16=1 Set when loading this as part of the MAD16 setup only trix=1 Set when loading this as part of the Audiotrix setup only pas2=1 Set when loading this as part of the Pas2 setup only sm_games=1 Set if you have a Logitech soundman games acer=1 Set this to detect cards in some ACER notebooks mwave_bug=1 Set if you are trying to use this driver with mwave (see on) You may well want to load the opl3 driver for synth music on most SB and clone SB devices insmod opl3 io=0x388 Using Mwave To make this driver work with Mwave you must set mwave_bug. You also need to warm boot from DOS/Windows with the required firmware loaded under this OS. IBM are being difficult about documenting how to load this firmware. Avance Logic ALS007 This card is supported; see the separate file ALS007 for full details. Avance Logic ALS100 This card is supported; setup should be as for a standard Sound Blaster 16. The driver will identify the audio device as a "Sound Blaster 16 (ALS-100)".