From: John Gay (John_Gay at domain eur.3com.com)
Date: Fri 06 Aug 1999 - 23:55:06 IST
Well, I've had a week of work and used the time to get personal with my PC's. I
ftp'd the kernel sources for 2.2.9, because the latest sound how-to was based on
it. I tried several different settings, and finally got sound to work when I
compiled it directly into the kernel instead of a module. I can't seem to get my
head around this module stuff. I few of the settings threw me off, though. In
Windows, oss trial version and pnpdump all seem to disagree with each other.
Also, during bootup, BIOS report settings that are different again? I used the
setting I got from pnpdump -c >isapnp.conf I think that is the right switch, it
was the auto configure. This is what got my sound working. Now when I boot, I
get several messages about DMA's being wrong, but the sound works. These
messages don't seem to be in dmesg, or in any of the logs in /var/log??? I also
tested the recording functions according to the sound how-to, but it doesn't
seem to be working either. I can't seem to find any good DOC's to explain the
relation between isapnp.conf and sound cards. is it advisable to edit the
setting in the isapnp.conf file, besides just commenting and un-commenting
lines? My card says it need DMA 1 and 3 in the BIOS boot messages, but pnpdump
only gives DMA 1 and 0. Some of the interrupts are different as well. Can I just
change these to match the BIOS settings, or will isapnp get rather upset?? Is
there anything else I should be reading besides the sound how-to, module mini
how-to and the documentation in the kernel? If some one knows of any good info,
could you please point me in the general direction. I also want to get a good
handle on this module stuff, I plan to use my PII to compile new kernels for my
486 and would like to have this module stuff down first to avoid headaches.
Thanks again for all the help and info.
Cheers,
John Gay
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