Alsa is probably going to use whatever IRQ the card thinks it has. I don't know that for sure, but I'm pretty sure you'll still have the same problem. Are you able to change the IRQ for your printer port through CMOS? That might work or if you have a PNP OS setting in your CMOS, you might try telling it the oposite of what it's currently at.
Another problem may be that it's not a shared IRQ but a shared DMA channel. Something else to try would be to open up the sound server configuration applet (Kmenu->Configuration->KDE->Sound->SoundServer). On the sound IO tab, see if full duplex is enabled and if it is, disable it. My soundblaster wouldn't work consistently with it enabled. And just incase Alsa or autodetect is the sound system on that tab, try manually changing it to OSS. Is the soundcard a stock Soundblaster or is it a soundblaster compatible? Joe On Thursday 17 January 2002 11:41 am, you wrote: > Dear Joe, > Thank you for the suggestion. I tried this change and it did not work. I > cannot figure out where the conflict is coming from because according to > all the files I can check the printer and sound are not sharing any irq's. > The printer uses 7 and I give 5 or 9 to sound but it just does not work for > some reason. I can only get the sound or printer to work separately but not > together. This makes no sense to me. Would installing and running the Alsa > sound make any difference? > > Thanks for any help. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia > > On Thursday 17 January 2002 12:10 am, you wrote: > > It sounds like your sound card and printer are both using irq 7. I had > > this problem with a soundblaster 16 and solved it by adding the following > > to my /etc/modules.conf file > > > > options sb io=0x220 irq=9 mpu_io=0x300 dma=0 dma16=5 > > alias sound-slot-0 sb > > > > Of course, you will need to check /proc/interrupts to make sure irq 9 is > > free. I believe soundblaster can also use irq 5, but my usb was using > > it. > > > > Joe > > > > On Tuesday 15 January 2002 10:58 pm, you wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > I would like to put my printer in /etc/modules to make sure it is > > > recognized and loaded even when I have sound working. As of now I have > > > to choose either having sound or printing because once I put the sb > > > (for sound) in > > > /etc/modules then my printer stops working. So far I have not found a > > > solution to this even through the bios or almost all other methods of > > > irq and ioport selection , reinstalling, changing devfs=mount to > > > nomount, changing printing systems and even getting a new printer all > > > of which have not resolved the problem. Someone else from this list has > > > been kind enough to help me privately with this, too. I thought maybe > > > if I put my printer into /etc/modules along with the sound it could > > > resolve this. It is worth a try anyway. I just need to know how to > > > correctly put my printer into the file and in what order. Should it be > > > after sb or before? Thanks for any help here. I have LM 8.1 and a > > > hpdeskjet 940c printer. Everything worked just fine in LM7, 7.2, and 8. > > > I know devfs is new in 8.1 and I do wonder if that is what is causing > > > this problem for me. > > > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > > > Marcia
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