Re: Soundcard problem!

["Matthew B. Marlowe" <marlowe@alfheim.net>]

DMA should equal 5 or 1.. Not 05 or 01

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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Nikolaos Margaritis wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I have a serious problem with my soundcard which persistently 
> refuses to cooperate with my Linux system. The processor is a
> PII on an ASUS P2B-DS motherboard. My kernel is brand new:
> version 2.1.125, but it seems to work fine so far for anything 
> else but sound. The sound card is a vibra16pnp (by Creative Labs).
> 
> Whenever I attempted to use sndconfig, for whichever setup I have chosen,
> the result was anticipated: A problem appears with modprobe.
> 
> Furthermore, when I type: "modprobe sb.o" the answer is:
> 
> /lib/modules/2.1.125/misc/sb.o: too many values for dma (max 1)
> 
> Has anybody out there seen this attitude before?
> 
> I suspect the following details might be useful:
> 
> 	IRQ = 5
> 	I/O range = 0220 - 0223, DMA = 05
> 	I/O range = 0224 - 022F, DMA = 01
> 
> I obtained these data using NT diagnostics, so I do cannot be 100% sure 
> that one could rely on them. :-)
> (Afterall, I have deleted Microsoft from my computer!)
> 
> When I use  "pnpdump -c -script=out", the file "out" contains the following
> information:
> 
> 
> 
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	prefixes="/etc/pnp/config-scripts/isa /usr/share/pnp/config-scripts/isa"
> 
> 	function pnp_isa_configure {
>     		local i id dir found_it
>     		i=0
>     		while [ "${dev_ids[$i]}" != "" ] ; do
>         		id="${dev_ids[$i]}"
> 			for dir in $prefixes ; do
> 				if [ -r $dir/$id ] ; then
> 					source $dir/$id
> 					return $?
> 	    			fi
> 			done
> 			i=`expr $i + 1`
>     		done
> 	# Failed to find anything
> 	return 1
> 	}
> 	unset irq irq_flags dma dma_flags io_start io_len io_flags
> 	unset mem_start mem_len mem_flags dev_ids
> 	board_id=CTL0070
> 	dev_ids[0]=CTL0001
> 	irq[0]=5 ; irq_flags[0]=0x00
> 	dma[0]=1 ; dma_flags[0]=0x08
> 	dma[1]=5 ; dma_flags[1]=0x12
> 	io_start[0]=0x0220 ; io_len[0]\x16 ; io_flags[0]=0x01
> 	io_start[1]=0x0330 ; io_len[1]=2  ; io_flags[1]=0x01
> 	io_start[2]=0x0388 ; io_len[2]=4  ; io_flags[2]=0x01
> 	pnp_isa_configure
> 	
> 	unset irq irq_flags dma dma_flags io_start io_len io_flags
> 	unset mem_start mem_len mem_flags dev_ids
> 	board_id=CTL0070
> 	dev_ids[0]=CTL7001
> 	dev_ids[2]=PNPb02f
> 	io_start[0]=0x0200 ; io_len[0]=8  ; io_flags[0]=0x01
> 	pnp_isa_configure
> 
> 
> 
> Strangely enough, the file /etc/modules.conf contains:
> 
> 	alias sound sb
> 	options -k sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=3,5
> 	alias midi opl3
> 	options -k opl3 io=0x388
> 
> The technical values from these two files are not so consistent, are they? :-)
> 
> I will be very grateful for any hint which may help.
> Thanks in advance, and sorry for the length of this mail.
> --
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