Sorry about the formatting I will remember that for the future.
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What was the effect of disabling either clcs(4) or sb(4) in UKC or config(8)? is there no option in the BIOS to disable this permanently?
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Well, nothing I have done has resulted in either sound card getting recognized by one of the programs I would like to use; mplayer, mp3blaster, morseplayer. It looks like mixerctl and audioctl see some kind of sound card but that hasn't done much for me. Its odd that audio cd's work but mplayer doesn't.
Interesting linux info. I got the card to work on suse 8.2 using alsa.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/CS4239
As for the soft error, I assumed that had something to do with the suspend-resume, since the dmesg was run just after I closed and opened the case.