Re: Upgrading Linux, Sound is Gone

["Adrian St.Onge" <adrian@cnx.net>]

Usally IRQ is for the printer port. You might try disabling that in your
BIOS.
For example, here are my interrupts:

 0:  148784957   timer
 1:     443152   keyboard
 2:          0   cascade
 3:     730500   NE2000
 7:   11496998   sound blaster
12:   10422617   PS/2 Mouse
13:          1   math error
14:   10713065 + ide0
15:   28095811 + ide1

my ESS sound card is on IRQ 7 but I have my printer port disabled (or on
a different IRQ) in my BIOS.
If you can change your printer port IRQ you have to disable it and
install a printer port card.

-- Adrian St.Onge

Marshall Lake wrote:
> 
> I have an AOpen FX-3D sound board which I run in Sound Blaster emulation
> mode and it was working fine under Linux 2.0.34.  I upgraded Linux to
> 2.0.36 and I can't get the sound to work.
> 
> Trying to initializing the sound board gives me:
> sb: Interrupt test on IRQ7 failed - device disabled
> 
> I've tried fooling around with isapnptools but I don't get anywhere.
> 
> cat'ting /snd/sndstat gives:
> Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Thu Mar 18 21:23:59 EST 1999 root,
> Linux melake 2.0.36 #2 Tue Mar 16 17:51:55 EST 1999 i686 unknown)
> Kernel: Linux melake 2.0.36 #6 Thu Mar 18 21:35:19 EST 1999 i686
> Config options: 880002
> 
> Installed drivers:
> Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
> Type 2: Sound Blaster
> 
> Card config:
> Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1,5
> (OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0)
> 
> Audio devices:
> 
> Synth devices:
> 
> Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
> 
> Timers:
> 0: System clock
> 
> Mixers:
> 
> I had compiled 2.0.34 as i386.  I compiled 2.0.36 as i686.  Could that be
> making the difference?
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions short of going back to 2.0.34?
> 
> Marshall Lake - mlake@melake.erols.com - http://melake.erols.com
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