Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-14 Thread Britton
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1. surely it's better to document what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for another (Why can't I use my ... printer? :)) In linux

Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 12:25:56PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Rick Hawkins wrote: After playing for an extended period with the default settings, I finally figured out why my sound card wouldn't work: the defaults in the kernel package use Irq 7 rather than 5. Isn't 5 the standard on

Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-11 Thread Stephen Zander
Hamish Moffatt wrote: Why shouldn't our kernel factory-default to 5 too? I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1. surely it's better to document what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for another (Why can't I use my ... printer? :)) Stephen --- Normality is a statistical

Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1. surely it's better to document what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for another (Why can't I use my ... printer? :)) In linux the lp module doesn't use an IRQ, it polls instead, doesn't

Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 04:39:42PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: Why shouldn't our kernel factory-default to 5 too? I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1. surely it's better to document what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for another (Why

kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-10 Thread Rick Hawkins
After playing for an extended period with the default settings, I finally figured out why my sound card wouldn't work: the defaults in the kernel package use Irq 7 rather than 5. Isn't 5 the standard on this? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Rick Hawkins wrote: After playing for an extended period with the default settings, I finally figured out why my sound card wouldn't work: the defaults in the kernel package use Irq 7 rather than 5. Isn't 5 the standard on this? standard? Surely you jest. Yeah, it's also the standard for a

Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-10 Thread Rick Hawkins
jen jorgensen wrote, standard? Surely you jest. Yeah, it's also the standard for a lot of other ISA cards whose manufacturer decided that 5 should be the standard IRQ for their board. I believe this myth has originated because the Creative Labs Soundblaster board factory-defaults to an IRQ