Sorry, got my dimensions and my latitudes mixed up. If the BIOS has a "PnP OS" option, it should be set to "off" or "no". (Although I seem to recall a thread on a ng saying that at least some Dells don't have such an option, and it's always set to "on".) You might also try disabling unused hardware--serial ports, parallel ports, USB, floppy drive, power management, etc.
Good luck! JN On Wednesday 05 March 2003 16:57, Sujan Gautam wrote: > 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 ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
