Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 21 Jul 1996 04:42:22 -0600 (MDT) | From | Rob Riggs <> | Subject | Re: SB16 Sound driver problem |
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On 21-Jul-96 Hannu Savolainen wrote: >>On Sat, 20 Jul 1996, Herbert Rosmanith wrote: > >> > sb: Interrupt test on IRQ10 failed - device disabled >> >> are you booting from ms/dos with a different irq for your sb16 ? >> that's a possible explanation. try using the same irq in both >> ms/dos and linux. or, use an irq < 10 (i.e. 7), maybe you then >> have less problems. >This could propably help. SB16 has software configurable IRQ and DMA >numbers. However there are some problems with it with it with oldest SB16 >models. The IRQ selection seem to be locked after the setup register has >been written first time. If it has been configured to use another IRQ >under DOS, Linux may fail changing the register properly. > >In the oldest SB16 models there is a jumper for setting the IRQ. I don't >know how the software IRQ setup works with these cards. Possibly the >software setup is just ignored and the card uses always the jumpered value. > >Best regards, > >Hannu
My soundcard is indeed an old one. The manual makes no mention of a "software setup" for IRQ or DMA channels. Everything AFAIK is done with jumpers.
Rob (rriggs@tesser.com)
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