That is very nice, clears up conceptual problems. But... :-) The actual configuration of a PCI card...(without ALSA) How do you know which modules to add in /etc/modules.conf You could use lspci -v and then with the result launch a search in Google or in the card`s manufacturer page, than you have to compile the drivers or perhaps use a generic one include with the kernel... Then you should edit some files, right? Perhaps some links in /dev and than it you what is left is to setup an application (I dont remember seeing any option like "sound device is /dev/snd-xxx-xxx) in xmms...) Thanks for all the threads though, very educative :-) Raúl On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Milnes Terry SSgt 52 LG/LGOP wrote:
PCI Cards are PnP. ISA cards come in two flavors PnP capable and jumpered/hybrid. PCI cards for the most part are capable to use any IRQ. Legacy ISA cards were jumpered or soft BIOSed w/ a built-in IRQ. When you put in a card like this you would tell the BIOS that you have a Legacy ISA card and set the IRQ as reserved and the BIOS would set aside that IRQ for that card and start the card, so to speak. With PCI cards if you set the BIOS to legacy ISA the BIOS will think that it is dealing w/ a ISA card and set aside the IRQ for that card and start it. Now that the card has a IRQ, Linux has a easier time of finding the IRQ/DMA/Memory address if the BIOS puts it aside.
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-----Original Message----- From: Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 11:09 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros
I was under the impression that PnP only affected ISA cards, and didn't do anything for/with PCI-cards. Is that wrong?
Anders
The Live! Card is a PCI card, however, if you set the BIOS to Legacy ISA it will grab IRQ's for your card so that non-PnP capable OS's can use the cards.
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-----Original Message----- From: Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 10:22 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros
I thought the SBLive was a relatively new card. Isn't it PCI?
Anders
On Friday 02 November 2001 10.11, Milnes Terry SSgt 52 LG/LGOP wrote:
To check if the BIOS has PnP enabled, when the PC boots you should have a point when the BIOS is checking the memory. Most BIOSes are triggered by pushing the delete button. Now you can go through the different
On Friday 02 November 2001 10.57, Milnes Terry SSgt 52 LG/LGOP wrote: options.
There should be something like advanced options or supported peripherals and in here there should be a selection on PnP enabled or disabled. Set
it
to disabled and then set all the IRQ/DMA settings to Legacy ISA. This way the BIOS sets the IRQ/DMA settings for you. Windows w/ its PnP technology changes the IRQ/DMA settings every time a new card is installed or
possibly
a driver is updated. Also, if you are using KDE you can check to see what IRQ/DMA settings the Live! Card is using in the Control Center-->Settings-->IRQ and DMA sections. This will help you when you insmod the module, because you can pass the IRQ/DMA settings to the module at boot time.(i.e. insmod emu10k1 IRQ=11 DMA=3)
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