From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 16 06:42:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E615D16A41F for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:42:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02DDC43D45 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:42:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8G6gVOl065742; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:42:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost.blackend.org [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8G6gV2s000616; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:42:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j8G6gUx1000615; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:42:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:42:30 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: fww@ieee.org Message-ID: <20050916064230.GA598@gothic.blackend.org> Mail-Followup-To: fww@ieee.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <20050829155939.GC595@gothic.blackend.org> <20050829172303.GF595@gothic.blackend.org> <20050915185657.GM595@gothic.blackend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fix for Section 7.2.1.1 - Soundblaster 16 driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:42:35 -0000 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