From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Deirdre Saoirse Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 01:14:20 +0000 Subject: Re: interrupt conflict with sound and video? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Peter John Cameron wrote: > Is this why I get no sound? IRQ 7 is free on my Linux system, so how should > I go about changing the sound card's IRQ from 11 to 7? Would such a change > affect how sound works in win98? More to the point, would it solve my lack > of Linux sound? That's probably why. You don't want it to use IRQ 7 unless you have disabled the parallel port in the BIOS. That normally runs on IRQ 7. As for the Win98 question, I have no personal knowledge as I've never been a Windows user. It seems to me the larger problem here is a system with so much stuff that you've run out of IRQs. Might I recommend SCSI instead of two IDE chains? -- _Deirdre * http://www.linuxcabal.net * http://www.deirdre.net "Mars has been a tough target" -- Peter G. Neumann, Risks Digest Moderator "That's because the Martians keep shooting things down." -- Harlan Rosenthal , retorting in Risks Digest 20.60