Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:42:30 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: fww@ieee.org Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fix for Section 7.2.1.1 - Soundblaster 16 driver Message-ID: <20050916064230.GA598@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <a2b9247605091512342ca39159@mail.gmail.com> References: <a2b9247605082908126161620e@mail.gmail.com> <20050829155939.GC595@gothic.blackend.org> <a2b9247605082909467eb95083@mail.gmail.com> <20050829172303.GF595@gothic.blackend.org> <a2b92476050915091471c779ae@mail.gmail.com> <20050915185657.GM595@gothic.blackend.org> <a2b9247605091512342ca39159@mail.gmail.com>
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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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