On Wednesday 05 March 2003 16:04, Sujan Gautam wrote: > I recently installed FBSD on my dell dimension. The problem I face is, I > can't get the OEM SoundBlaster live cards working. I have tried adding > 'device pcm' to kernel and recompiling. The module loads but dmesg > doesn't recognize any pcm device ie dmesg | grep pcm* doesn't yield any > results. I found out from the motherboard configuration that the on board > ethernet port and the soundcard share the same irq. Could that be the > problem? If that is the case, I'd like to change the irq address in the > source code. Any good sites/suggestions for information on that? I have > tried the handbook on the freebsd site but couldn't find anything > specific.
The IRQ confict could well be the problem. However, FreeBSD doesn't assign IRQ's to devices, it leaves that up to the BIOS. So changing source code probably won't get you anywhere. See if you can get the BIOS to assign different IRQ's to the two devices. (I realize that that can be difficult on normal BIOSes, and may be impossible on a Dell laptop). You might also try searching and/or posting to the freebsd-mobile mailing list to see if anyone else has had (and hopefully solved) this problem. In general, the pcm driver should support SoundBlaster live hardware, so it's just a matter of figuring out what's going on.. JN ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
