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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 24 May 2005, James Miller wrote:

> 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.

I tried running pnpdump and was told there were no pnp cards.
I will, for fun, try it on an SB16 that I think is pnp (at least I can 
change the settings in Win98 in control panel, system - on another SB16 I 
could not make any changes).  All I really want to do is determine the 
current settings, not change them, in most cases. In one case the current 
settings conflicted with another card and I was able to change them in 
Win98.  In two Vibra16 cards Win98 detected the cards with settings that 
were different from what worked in DOS and linux.  Win98 - irq 5, DOS - 
irq2, linux - IRQ 9 (I tried everything else first). ?????

How is pnp designed to work?  I hear it does not work so well in linux. 
You can also run DOS isapnp before loadlin if you want to have kernel 
instead of module support for cards.

> James