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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Tue, 24 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> >   Good chance to learn isapnptools.
>
> I never did learn isapnptools. I just gave up and compiled a new kernel.
> I found it much harder to learn isapnptools than compile kernels. I
> may be interested in descriptions of how to use isapnptools.

Part of it is fairly straightforward. Install it and run isapnpdump. This 
will generate a config file in /etc called isapnp.conf or something like 
that. If it succeeeded in detecting any ISA boards (it doesn't always, and 
will give you indications of this at the command line), the config file 
will have information about it and various settings it can use (IRQ, DMA, 
etc). You then uncomment the appropriate lines in that file and get your 
system to run isapnp at boot. Or just run it from the command line. My 
problem was determining which of those lines to uncomment: it wasn't very 
clear. Fortunately, someone with the exact same sound card as mine had 
done a write-up on the web and provided values that worked for his card, 
so I used those.

James