I wish I knew C better or I would crack the heck out of it
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Im having trouble installing my sound card aswel...
> i couldnt get it working in the installation of Red Hat 5.2 or Mandrake 6.1 but
> when i downloaded OSS on my RH 5.2 box it worked.. it only had about 3 hours on
> the demo and it expired b4 i could crack it.. i updated the kernel and
> re-downloaded the new version and it wouldnt work at all.. i thought it would
> be different in mandrake but its not.. it says more than 1 pnp card was
> detected and id have to choose it myself from the list.. i tried all the pnp
> cards i could see and none would work...
> when i do pnpdump the first few lines say this...
>
> # Trying port address 0203
> # Board 1 has serial identifier 2f ff ff ff ff 81 71 93 04
>
> # (DEBUG)
> (READPORT 0x0203)
> (ISOLATE PRESERVE)
> (IDENTIFY *)
> (VERBOSITY 2)
> (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL))
> # or WARNING
>
> # Card 1: (serial identifier 2f ff ff ff ff 81 71 93 04)
> # Vendor Id ADS7181, No Serial Number (-1), checksum 0x2F.
> # Version 1.0, Vendor version 2.0
> # ANSI string -->Analog Devices AD1816A<--
> #
> # Logical device id ADS7180
> # Device support I/O range check register
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x38
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3a
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3d
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3f
>
> i dont understand most of that..
> anyone know if it will work or i should just buy another sound card..
>
> Mr-X-
>
> On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. said:
> > Yup, I think you're right, sorry about that. I think it was pnpdump. It's been a
> > while since I did the set-up. I had to do it the hard way with RedHat 5.2, but
> > since using Mandrake 6.0 and 6.1, I have been able to use sndconfig to set up
> > the card.
> >
> > The "no boards found" line tells us that pnpdump is not seeing your card
> > (obviously). Your sound card has the same chip set as mine. I read somewhere
> > something about edge detection with respect to setting up the card, so I went
> > into my BIOS settings, and changed the setting for detection from "level" to
> > "edge". Then I was able to set up the card.
> >
> > I am not a technician, and I have no training whatsoever, so what I usually
> > do, is a lot of reading, and a lot of trial and error. I think I would check
> > the BIOS settings to see if your (I can't remember the correct name) detection
> > mode is set to level detection, or edge detection. I don't know if this setting
> > really did anything for me or not, but if the pnpdump utility is looking for
> > edge detection, and the BIOS is set to level detection, then pnpdump may not be
> > able to "see" the card, hence, the "no boards found" line in the isapnp.conf
> > file. I'm just shooting in the dark, here. Maybe someone with more know-how can
> > lend a hand.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Ernie
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999,R_Yeo wrote:
> > | "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote:
> > |
> > | > isapnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
> > |
> > | Got this far, but I think the command was pnpdump. The output file,
> > | however contains lots of commented out lines. An excerp below:
> > |
> > | # Trying port address 03ab
> > | # Trying port address 03b3
> > | # Trying port address 03bb
> > | # Trying port address 03e3
> > | # Trying port address 03eb
> > | # Trying port address 03f3
> > | # No boards found
> > |
> > | Where would I go about looking for the addresses for my soundcard and
> > | FDD? BTW, my soundcard is a Crystal 4232. This is from my
> > | /var/log/messages:
> > |
> > | Oct 22 01:20:39 pc15-gmy kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright
> > | (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
> > | Oct 22 01:20:39 pc15-gmy kernel: cs4232: set synthio and synthirq to use
> > | the wavefront facilities.
> > | Oct 22 01:20:39 pc15-gmy kernel: YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C)
> > | by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996
> > |
> > | Appreciate any further help. Looks like this is a good start so far.
> > |
> > | --
> > | Ronald Yeo
> > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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