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  • From: "Sheldon Isaac" <SheldonIsaac AT MyRealBox.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Sound (was Re: DSL question)
  • Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:47:38 -0500

> 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?)


1: SoundBlaster8
4: cascade
5: SoundBlaster16








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