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Re: Lost sound



Hi,

I changed the IRQ as You said and got my sound back. Thanks.


>From: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz-home@cobol2java.com>
>To: Yoav Ben-Yosef <benyosef@hotmail.com>
>CC: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
>Subject: Re: Lost sound
>Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 22:45:34 +0200
>
>Your sound blaster is using IRQ which is being "caught" by the PCI bug &
>Voodoo 3 (from IRQ 9 to 11 I think)
>
>As much as I remember (and anyone can correct me on that) the BIOS grabs
>IRQ for each PCI slot.
>
>It's not using the IRQ unless the card needs it - and if I recall
>correctly, Voodoo 3000 does.
>
>What I can suggest to you is to set up your Sound Blaster to a different
>IRQ & different DMA channel.
>
>Mine for example: IRQ 5, DMA low 1, DMA high 5.
>
>IRQ 5 is not being taken by PCI.
>
>Hetz
>
>Yoav Ben-Yosef wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've installed a VOODOO3 3000 adapter only to find that the sound 
>support
> > stopped working. This is a SuSE 6.1 with an old SB16 (non-PnP) card. I
> > checked the definitions in my conf.modules and they look OK. Any ideas 
>what
> > I have to do now?
> >
> > TIA

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