DMA should equal 5 or 1.. Not 05 or 01
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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Nikolaos Margaritis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a serious problem with my soundcard which persistently
> refuses to cooperate with my Linux system. The processor is a
> PII on an ASUS P2B-DS motherboard. My kernel is brand new:
> version 2.1.125, but it seems to work fine so far for anything
> else but sound. The sound card is a vibra16pnp (by Creative Labs).
>
> Whenever I attempted to use sndconfig, for whichever setup I have chosen,
> the result was anticipated: A problem appears with modprobe.
>
> Furthermore, when I type: "modprobe sb.o" the answer is:
>
> /lib/modules/2.1.125/misc/sb.o: too many values for dma (max 1)
>
> Has anybody out there seen this attitude before?
>
> I suspect the following details might be useful:
>
> IRQ = 5
> I/O range = 0220 - 0223, DMA = 05
> I/O range = 0224 - 022F, DMA = 01
>
> I obtained these data using NT diagnostics, so I do cannot be 100% sure
> that one could rely on them. :-)
> (Afterall, I have deleted Microsoft from my computer!)
>
> When I use "pnpdump -c -script=out", the file "out" contains the following
> information:
>
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
> prefixes="/etc/pnp/config-scripts/isa /usr/share/pnp/config-scripts/isa"
>
> function pnp_isa_configure {
> local i id dir found_it
> i=0
> while [ "${dev_ids[$i]}" != "" ] ; do
> id="${dev_ids[$i]}"
> for dir in $prefixes ; do
> if [ -r $dir/$id ] ; then
> source $dir/$id
> return $?
> fi
> done
> i=`expr $i + 1`
> done
> # Failed to find anything
> return 1
> }
> unset irq irq_flags dma dma_flags io_start io_len io_flags
> unset mem_start mem_len mem_flags dev_ids
> board_id=CTL0070
> dev_ids[0]=CTL0001
> irq[0]=5 ; irq_flags[0]=0x00
> dma[0]=1 ; dma_flags[0]=0x08
> dma[1]=5 ; dma_flags[1]=0x12
> io_start[0]=0x0220 ; io_len[0]=16 ; io_flags[0]=0x01
> io_start[1]=0x0330 ; io_len[1]=2 ; io_flags[1]=0x01
> io_start[2]=0x0388 ; io_len[2]=4 ; io_flags[2]=0x01
> pnp_isa_configure
>
> unset irq irq_flags dma dma_flags io_start io_len io_flags
> unset mem_start mem_len mem_flags dev_ids
> board_id=CTL0070
> dev_ids[0]=CTL7001
> dev_ids[2]=PNPb02f
> io_start[0]=0x0200 ; io_len[0]=8 ; io_flags[0]=0x01
> pnp_isa_configure
>
>
>
> Strangely enough, the file /etc/modules.conf contains:
>
> alias sound sb
> options -k sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=3,5
> alias midi opl3
> options -k opl3 io=0x388
>
> The technical values from these two files are not so consistent, are they? :-)
>
> I will be very grateful for any hint which may help.
> Thanks in advance, and sorry for the length of this mail.
> --
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