On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 12:25:56PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Rick Hawkins wrote: > > After playing for an extended period with the default settings, I finally > > figured out why my sound card wouldn't work: the defaults in the kernel > > package use Irq 7 rather than 5. Isn't 5 the standard on this? > > "standard"? Surely you jest. Yeah, it's also the "standard" for a lot > of other ISA cards whose manufacturer decided that 5 should be the > "standard" IRQ for their board. I believe this myth has originated > because the Creative Labs Soundblaster board factory-defaults to an
Why shouldn't our kernel factory-default to 5 too? Also I heard that Redhat have a nice sound configuration utility using the nice new modularized sound driver. Still I haven't worked out how to modularize my sound driver in 2.1.65. Something like this would be nice. Perhaps I'll look into it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
