It is a desktop machine. And the bios does let me change the IRQ settings, however, it wont allow individual IRQs. Every other option will assign a shared IRQ to the card. So, I guess I am stuck with it for now. Would ALSA drivers resolve the issue? If I recall correctly, I dont think I had similar issue with Debian.
Sujan ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [uug] FreeBSD gurus > 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 ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
