On Saturday July 20 2002 06:32 pm, Marcia wrote: > Dear Tom, > > I just sent a support email to OSS. Hopefully they can help.
OSS or the commercial driver vendor? OSS is Open (ie, free, and open) Sound System, the commercial vendor most likely _isn't_. Just what vendor driver did you get, anyhow? A quick search turned up http://www.opensound.com/ While I believe that Linux's future depends upon $elling and us buyin software/support, I also feel that the product needs to remain free open source. > I checked the irq's. The ethernet and sound are sharing 5. I thought > that could be the problem however I do not see any free irq's that > are available. Do I need to free up some irq's from the bios? What does 'less /proc/interrupts' say? I really suspect you've got a hardware deficiency or a bios mis-config. A decent AC97 should'a been reocgnized and setup with no effort. You do have (M$) pn'pray support turned off in bios, no? Another good bet is to turn off (M$) APIC in bios. In my > previous LM versions up until 8.1, I always had ethernet at 9. Then > in 8.1 I could only get it on 5 or 11 and 5 was always with sound so > I accepted 11. 9 would not accept my ethernet anymore. Now there is > no 9 or 10 listed and I think 11 is used by the usb-uhci or something > like that. Can the usb-uhci and ethernet share the irq? What can > safely share the irq? Nothing, altho They would like you to believe it works. The PCI spec calls for IRQ sharing, but it's sometimes unsuccesful. Search the ML archive for 'uhci'. IIRC, there's a quick edit to a modules.conf line for fixin this. I dunno, I don't use a ether, or anything that relies on USB (universal serial bus, just another way of sayin a failing M$ approach). Remember His Billness' live presentation of W9x's 'new' implementation of USB ... instant BSOD televised. (i'm still chucklin') Does sound work if you remove the ethernet card? Use linuxconf, or mcc to make sure harddrake and kudzu are running/started on boot. I imagine that sound and ethernet sharing the > irq is not good. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you very > much for your attention to this matter. No need to be so formal ....... i ain't;) I'm also runnin out of ideas ;( It's real hard to fix hardware problems by email. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia > > Well, it's sort'a hard to reserve comment on that decision > > other than to say that now you need to seek support from the vendor > > of the commercial driver. > > > > Mandrake default kernels (other than the enterprise version) are > > configured for < 1GB memory (ie, High Memory is off). The error > > you got is possibly a kernel taint by the commercial driver, altho > > there's no way to find out. Look on your main menu, Configuration > > | KDE | Information | Interrupts, and find your sound, probly on > > IRQ 10. If you see another device on the same line separated by a > > comma, then the devices are sharing that IRQ. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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