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["Sheldon Isaac" <SheldonIsaac AT MyRealBox.com>]

> On 30 Dec 2005 at 20:12, sindi keesan wrote:
> > less /proc/interrupts  lists what is in use.  You have a lot of
> > modules loaded in rc and maybe irq10 is already taken by rtl8139.

I don't think so - see below.

> > Why not use irq=5?

An error message, something about conflict?  I chose IRQ 10 because Windows 
said the sound card had that interrupt. Though maybe that doesn't mean 
much.  Perhaps the BIOS settings?

> > less /proc/dma - try changing dma from 1 to 0 or 2 if 1 is taken

1 is fine, see below,

> > Perhaps the .wav included is 8-bit not 16-bit, and the Windows one
> > is 16-bit, and you need a dma16=5 to get it to play?
> > (I don't really understand these things, just guessing).

Good guess!!!
I can play most of those C:\windows\media .wav files now.

Maybe some day I can play actual music. MP3s?
CD audio?

Thanks again
Sheldon

-----------

(revised /etc/rc line:
insmod sb io=0x220 irq=10 dma=1 dma16=5
)

=============
          CPU0       
  0:      89381          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       2076          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  9:          0          XT-PIC  eth0
 10:         80          XT-PIC  soundblaster
 13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
 14:      13630          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:         12          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0

(What are those numbers in the second column?  and whatis  XT-PIC?)


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