Chris Russell wrote:
>
> I have a good install of 7.2 with one exception. I can't get the sound
> card to work. I have tried a dozen different sound cards with no success.
>
> In HardDrake, the sound card shows up but has no IRQ attached to it. If I
> type in IRQ5, I get an error that it is busy or in use. How do I find out
> what device is using IRQ 5? It is not the network card. The SCSI card bios
> says it is at IRQ 9. I baffled. HELP... I also tried ESS cards with the
> same error message.
>
Move the sound card to another pci slot. Be sure that PNP Operating
System in the BIOS is set to NO. Reboot and see if that doesn't help
with sndconfig (don't forget to run sndconfig as root, and don't be in
Xwindows when you run it).
