All,
I have a sound problem. Actually, my computer has the problem.
I have a brand new computer from Atipa which has a Creative Labs
SoundBlaster 128 PCI sound card. When I attempt to play a wav file, it'll
play a bit then stop. At this point, the whole system is quite hung. It
only responds to a reset (or power off ;-).
I hit the Sound-HOWTO, and it mentions this very problem: an IRQ or
DMA conflict.
Since the card is PCI, I thought such conflicts were avoided! But,
I booted it last night, and read the PCI device summary that the BIOS
prints before loading LILO, and lo and behold: there were five devices
assigned IRQ 9! The two USB controllers, the ethernet card (Intel
EtherSomething), the sound card, and the video (Voodoo 3).
Is this right? I went into the CMOS and assigned IRQ 9 to "Legasy
ISA", and all of the devices switched to IRQ 10 (grumble).
I booted Single User, mounted the FS read only (do you know how
long it takes to fsck a 20GB file system?), and played a wav file
perfectly. I booted multi-user, attempted it again, got about 30 seconds
of music, and it hung (again, dammit!; fsck; feed the dog, watch TV, ...).
The MOBO is a Tyan Trinity K7. The Tyan site has two upgrades for
the BIOS (Award), but neither mentions my problem.
My question is: is this okay? When Linux boots, and the sound
module (es1371) is modprobed, it gets IRQ 9 just fine. My thought is that
one of the other devices sends a random interrupt, and hoses everything.
If the BIOS *is* okay, then what else can I try?
Thanks!
Danny
P.S. Since the system hangs, I can't see error messages if there are any.
I don't have the ALT-SysReq key enabled in the kernel config. Since I
don't know what it does, I left it alone. Would it help?
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