Just out of curiosity, how would you get into cmos considering the bios setup program doesn't have speech output? Gates go to hell, your OS is waiting for you there! On Wed, 22 May 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Pci cards cost money, and I don't have any to spend now (grin). I don't suppose I'd have better luck with the oss free kernel drivers? Thanks. > Greg > > > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:04:42AM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote: > > Put a PCI card in the machine. > > ISA cards require dma bounce buffers and aren't efficient these days. > > If youonly hae that card cmos is your best bet; > > although I have no idea on alsa 0.9.x 0.5.x works well for me > > so I have not upgraded. > > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:29:23PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au > > > > > > ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au > > > > ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > -- > > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au > > ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
