Jordan wrote:
>
> I'm not having much luck with sound.
> I installed Mandrake onto another computer (where again W98 has sound),
> and I get the same sort of error messages - seem to point to INT and I/O
> conflicts.
> Thing is, whatever combination of these I try, sound doesn't work. Nor
> does it help to allow the BIOS to automatically organise the PNP/ISA
> settings.
> I know at least one other person on the list has been having the same
> problem recently.
> Not much documentation on this subject to be found.
> Tried:
> hardrake
> sndconfig
> modprobe
> Lucky it's a rainy weekend.
> Anyone had this problem and fixed it?
>
Quite likely, you've diagnosed the problem correctly. On many
motherboards, the pci slots have IRQ's assigned to them. With Windows,
this usually isn't a problem, because Win allows IRQ sharing with most
devices. There are some exceptions, but generally, that is true. Linux
doesn't share IRQ's, so if you have a card in a slot that is assigned
IRQ 10 and your ethernet card in another slot requires IRQ 10 and the
slot is assigned 10 and 11 and your video card uses 11, well, you can
see what happens. Some motherboards simply will not allow you to change
IRQ settings for particular slots--you're stuck. The only solution is
to move the offending card to another slot, hopefully you have a free
one and something else doesn't require the IRQ that is assigned to that
one. Now that we have so many devices in our boxes this is a really
common occurance. I just ran into it with the above ethernet example.
No way the card could share an IRQ, and all my pci slots were filled.
Moving cards didn't work, but if I pulled my modem card it would work.
I finally installed an ISA card.
