problem configuring sb16 and alsa

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So, is there anything I can do short of going into cmos and playing with the irq assignments?
Greg


On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:15:04AM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> Yes Greg, I can read and I realize the card
> is ISA.
> You must realize that unless a resource is specifically reserved for the ISA
> bus, it is liable to appear only on the PCI bus.
> Interrupts default to beeing assigned for PCI devices or ISAPNP devices.
> Unless you assign them to legacy ISA any interrupts generated by
> ISA cards never make it to the system.
> The symptom of this is that when you cat /proc/interrupts 5 shows as in
> use by the soundcard it has + to show it is enabled but the
> count of interrupts is 0 and never increases.
> BTW there was never a PCI SB16 <smile>
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:08:20PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > The card is an isa card.
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 03:01:02AM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> > > If the board is a PCI board, then it will default
> > > to setting irqs to PCI/ISAPNP which isn't what you want.
> > > You want irq5 on legacy isa. If Alsa can't trigger
> > > and detect an interrupt it won't find the sb16.
> > > Dos may work because unlike Linux it doesn't attempt to reconfigure bios32 and
> > > ESCD/PCI space. Just a thought.
> > > 
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