On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:34:19PM -0400, Fred Wheeler wrote:
> On 9/15/05, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> > Thanks a lot!
>
> You're welcome, but I don't see what I did other than send some
> misguided suggestions that resulted from my own misunderstanding.
>
> > I have a last thing to ask you, are you able to change the card IRQ via
> > /boot/device.hints with a line like:
> >
> > hint.sbc.0.irq="5"
> >
> > or with any other "free" IRQ?
>
> I'm not sure why you're asking this, but here goes ...
>
> I am able to change the irq on the SB16 card to any of 4 different
> values with the jumpers. I did get it to work originally with
> hint.sbc.0.irq="5". However, the network card I have is also at irq 5
> and either cannot be changed or can only be changed with some software
> tool I do not have (no jumpers). So, I changed the SB16 jumpers and
> the hint.sbc.0.irq setting so I could use both cards at the same time.
> There was some trial and error involved. I tried all irq values the
> SB16 card supports, only irq 10 worked. irq 5 is used by the network
> card. Another irq is one of the serial or parallel ports. Yet
> another SB16 supported irq seemed to be "free", but did not work for
> me - perhaps it was not really free and I missed something on the BIOS
> screens. That's how I ended up with non-default hint.sbc.0 settings
> (at least different from what's in the snd_sbc man page).
>
Ok, thanks a lot. I will update the sound section today (in my
timezone).
Marc
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