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

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Sheldon Isaac wrote:

> On 1 Jan 2006 at 19:37, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > Do you have any non-pnp ISA cards in the computer?  If not, everything
> > should be automatic.
>
> Not sure.  I think the Sportster modem is non-pnp.

You may want to go into BIOS and assign IRQ 3 to it.
And IRQ5 to the sound card, if it has jumpers.
This should avoid future conflicts, since jumpered ISA cards can't switch 
IRQs.

> > > " On 30 Dec 2005 at 20:12, sindi keesan wrote:
> > > > > Why not use irq=5?
> Sheldon replied:
> > > 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.
>
> I think I am mixed up: IRQ 10 in Windows is "Creative Labs IDE Controller"
> IRQ 5 is "Creative Soundblaster 16 Plug and Play"

The sound card is an older one with an IDE controller on it, which means
you could have a CD-ROM drive plugged into it (back before computers came 
with two IDE controllers).  Some of my sound cards have three types of 
controllers, including Sony and Panasonic CD-ROM drive controllers.

You can check if linux is ignoring it in /proc/interrupts.

> > > Now, dmesg's output 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?
>
> DSL

So you were able to use BL to fix DSL - a perfect use for it.
Is there something you still use DSL for that BL with 2.2.26 won't do?

> I think that yesterday, under BL 3.32 with Steven's 2.2.26 kernel and
> Christof's package, I could:
>
> play  wavefilename
>
>
> Thanks again,
> Sheldon