Non-pnp ISA Cards

[Rafe Magnuson]

Ah! Thanks, ME. I played around with the settings some more and now I
get an entry for my soundblaster being loaded ok during the startup script.


Thanks again,

-Rafe

---- ME <dugan at passwall.com> wrote:
> 
> There are some EISA systems that require you run special software to
> register resources used by EISA card with the BIOS before they will
> be
> recognized by an OS at all in PnP or other modes. This software should
> come fomr the system vendor that sold you the system and/oor the
> motherboard manufacturer.
> 
> Also, when inserting a module, you can specify io port, and irq settings
> that the module should use.
> 
> Check out the info on the sb.o module to see if that helps.
> 
> You may want to examine the "Documentation/sound" dir/folder in the
> linux
> kernel source. Assuming you use the standard sound blaster, I have
> attached the doc for it and args to pass the module when using: 
> 
> # modprobe sb
> 
> or less kind
> 
> # insmod sb
> 
> to this e-mail. If you do not have a true Soundblaster or instead a
> Soundblaster pro, there are other docs there to help you too.
> 
> ie:
> # insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=....
> ( whatever.... (check the doc for specifics.)
> 
> but you would use the settings you have.
> 
> Also check out the contents of
> # demsg |more
> 
> and see if you have a sound card detected or what kind of audio notices
> were reported on startup.
> 
> -ME
> 
> 
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Rafe Magnuson wrote:
> > Is there some sort of trick to installing non-pnp ISA cards? I've
> got
> > this old 486dx4-100mhz (32mbram, 2gbhd, running slackware 7) system
> with
> > an original EISA soundblaster (non-pnp) and I can't seem to get the
> thing
> > recognized. I thought it would be as simple as just adding a line
> to
> > the modules.conf (like dma 0/irq 5) but it didn't make any difference.
> > 
> > It's pretty sad, I've gotten spoiled by being able to run pnpdump
> in
> > order to load pnp cards, heh heh.
> > 
> > Anyhow, any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
> > 
> > -- 
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