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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Day Brown wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> > 
> > >     If you can get them to work in DOS, then use the same settings 
> > > after the -
> > > insmod sb   io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1(0)  etc, and you should have no 
> > > problems.
> > >
> > 
> > I have not opened the computer to see what the jumpers are set to on my
> > SB16 Creative (not Vibra16).
> > 
> > I booted with bare.i and did insmod 6 times including the above line and
> > got four error messages:
> > 
> > unresolved symbol:  attach_uart401
> > The other three also involved uart401, probe, unload, etc.
> > 
> > Does this mean my irq or dma might be set wrong?

> I spoze, but you mite try going into the cmos and turning off the serial
> port support for coms 1-2,3-4. I've seen motherboard bugs that affected
> the uarts of modems. You might also wanna use a dos tool to copy the
> cmos onto both your IDE and FD before you go mucking around in the cmos.

I have mucked around lots of CMOSes and can disable and reenable serial 
ports safely, but thanks.  

How would a modem be affecting the sound card?  


>  
> > I will read the sound HOW-TO to see if there is some tool for determining
> > how the jumpers are set.  There was something about isapnptools.

isapnptools was for pnp cards.  This one is 1994, CT2290, and I found the
jumper settings for IRQ.  It offers 10 11 12 and 15 and it is set to 15.  
They are all unused by the rest of the computer.  I was trying to use the
original IRQ 5 setting in my insmod line.  I will see if this fixes the
problem first.

I don't see any jumpers for 220 or 240, or for DMA.  I will try both 
possibilities for both - only four combinations.  

There is something with 3 pairs of pins all open labelled IDE settings - 
iochroy (? tiny), ide 100 ide 101 - would this be 220/240?

Also something with four pairs of pins, all on (closed) - mpuen - msel - 
ios0 ios1 (?).

And another set of jumper pins ifsd apsd (both on) and jye (off) - no 
joystick?  I was lucky enough to download drawings of two older SB boards 
and there were joystick disable jumpers.  The drawings disappeared from 
the net a few years back.  

The last two sets of pins look like something to do with speaker but there 
are four holes - line out and speaker are separate, and there is a 
heatsink so you can use unpowered speakers.

This is a lot easier to read than the motherboard. No flashlight needed 
but I should get a magnifying glass.
If all else fails I will install the SB16 DOS software to here or see if I 
can at least pick out the diagnostic program.  This is a mostly linux 
computer for testing things on.

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