Re: Sound Card Problems

[Rodrigo Castro <rcastro@linux.ime.usp.br>]

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Keith Duthie wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Rodrigo Castro wrote:
> 
> > Tried everything. Not working. I don't even know if you have any more idea
> > about what may be the problem. My motherboard chipset is VIA and I read
> > something about a conflict between some VIA chipsets and sound cards. I
> > sent a message to linux-kernel list. Let's see if someone there gives us a
> > tip of what may not be working.
> > The worst thing is that it used to work in 2.0.36, but nowadays when I try
> > to revert to 2.0.36 kernel, it does not work more (with isapnptools). The
> > only way I found that works is initializing my card with a kernel patch in
> > a 2.0.* kernel.
> Try this patch, then recompile. If it works then the problem was the 
> motherboard.

Keith, 

I tried your patch and it did not work. I saw something about the patch
you send. It is only needed when DMA Hang is not detect. In my case,
it is detected as well it is activated a workaround for it.

PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfafb0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: 00:38 [1106/0586]: Work around ISA DMA hangs (00)
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.

[]'s
Rodrigo Castro   <rcastro@linux.ime.usp.br>
Computer Science undergraduate student - University of Sao Paulo
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