> On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:50, Nick Rout wrote:
> > On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:47:00 +1200
> > That will be of little use as he is using alsa
>
> I know & imho that's 90% of the problem, we could add
> file:///usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/alsa/*
> too. There are oss drivers for his old card, but I'm not so sure about there
> being something suitable in the alsa lineup.
>
> I'm pretty sure that the difficulty is that he has not set up the ioports and
>
> irq settings correctly - to say nothing of dma channel for the sound card.
> Particularly the latter.
I have found the documentation and tried using their suggest specs aside from
dma16 being -1 which wasn't given as something I could set under yast which I
am guessing is due to yast realising that dma16 should not be used.
> > Frankly another few dollars would buy a PCI sound card. It depends how
> > much you value your time I guess :)
> I think he's retired so time is of less value than $$$.
Retired, no, on holiday yes, bought an expensive monitor recently yes, stupidly
left old
known
to work sound card in Wellington.
> > I usually regard it as a personal challenge to get stubborn hardware
> > working properly, then end up wondering where my weekends and evenings
> > went :-)
> We all do that!
So that is where it goes.
