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

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Sheldon Isaac wrote:

> Well, I looked at the BIOS settings under PNP/PCI or whatever,
>
> Some slot?  was fixed at  irq 5  , while the others were all set for 
> automatic or some such,

Do you have any non-pnp ISA cards in the computer?  If not, everything 
should be automatic.  I have a jumpered ISA modem (IRQ3) , and a jumpered 
MGA/Parport card (IRQ 7) and even one jumpered SB sound card (IRQ 5).
PCI cards are always pnp.

> So I changed that one to automatic or some such, and rebooted.
>
> This time,  dmesg   under DSL 1.5 did  _not_  show the line about confilct I 
> mentioned previusly:
>
> " On 30 Dec 2005 at 20:12, sindi keesan wrote:
> > > 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?"

Windows likes to assign all sound cards as IRQ 10.  You can probably 
change this manually to IRQ5 in Windows now and have it keep working.

> Now, dmesg's oputput includes:
>
> sb: Creative SB16 PnP detected
> sb: ISAPnP reports 'Creative SB16 PnP' at i/o 0x220, irq 5, dma 1, 5
> sb: 1 Soundblaster PnP card(s) found.

> And Schumann's piano concerto is playing out of my 10 year old Soundblaster 
> speakers!

In BL and/or in DSL?  The latter is harder to figure out because it is 
bigger.  Therefore your question turned out to be BL-relevant.

There is an aumix for volume control if your speakers don't have that.

> Thanks, Sindi and Sam, for your help.
Glad I could help.
Sindi
> Happy new year to all,
> Sheldon