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#1 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 05:13 AM

I was trying to get the computer to recognize an old Soundblaster CT1740 ISA
sound card. It had jumper setting to set DMA and IRQ. I am running Debian
3.01 with the 2.2.20 kernel, this kernel does support sound. The SB module
is running and a look at the /proc/interrupts file shows soundblaster on irq
7. I set the jumpers for irq 7 and DMA 1. a pnpdump says that no card is
found so I went into the Award BIOS of my L440 Gigabyte PII and tried
changing from manual irq 7 on pnp to auto to legacy. None of these worked.
Searching the web results have not helped and I am ready to give up and just
get a newer soundcard but I kind of hate quitting. Can anyone offer advise
on what I may have overlooked? I appreciate it. ...dzn

#2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 05:13 AM

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 16:18:08 +0000, Dzn wrote:

> I was trying to get the computer to recognize an old Soundblaster CT1740 ISA
> sound card. It had jumper setting to set DMA and IRQ. I am running Debian
> 3.01 with the 2.2.20 kernel, this kernel does support sound. The SB module
> is running and a look at the /proc/interrupts file shows soundblaster on irq
> 7. I set the jumpers for irq 7 and DMA 1. a pnpdump says that no card is
> found so I went into the Award BIOS of my L440 Gigabyte PII and tried
> changing from manual irq 7 on pnp to auto to legacy. None of these worked.
> Searching the web results have not helped and I am ready to give up and just
> get a newer soundcard but I kind of hate quitting. Can anyone offer advise
> on what I may have overlooked? I appreciate it. ...dzn
>
If you have selected IRQ and DMA using jumpers on the card, then it is not
in plug and play mode- hence, pnpdump's report.

Your kernel is too old for me to advise you, other than recommending
this document:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html

I wrote this a while ago:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...&output=gplain

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#3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 05:15 AM

Dzn wrote:

> I was trying to get the computer to recognize an old Soundblaster CT1740
> ISA sound card. It had jumper setting to set DMA and IRQ. I am running
> Debian 3.01 with the 2.2.20 kernel, this kernel does support sound. The SB
> module is running and a look at the /proc/interrupts file shows
> soundblaster on irq 7. I set the jumpers for irq 7 and DMA 1. a pnpdump
> says that no card is found so I went into the Award BIOS of my L440
> Gigabyte PII and tried changing from manual irq 7 on pnp to auto to
> legacy. None of these worked. Searching the web results have not helped
> and I am ready to give up and just get a newer soundcard but I kind of
> hate quitting. Can anyone offer advise on what I may have overlooked? I
> appreciate it. ...dzn

You never said what the problem was. No sound? Since your sb module is
running my guess is that everything's fine, but you need to turn up the
volume with a mixer.

I have a Soundblaster 16 ISA non-PnP soundcard and whenever I install a new
system I have to personally enable it. I've always had good luck running
sndconfig.

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