Re: Sony Vaio SR33
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, p wrote:
>
> i've got the sony "picturebook" (pcg-c1xs) laptop. i luv the
> "feel" and portability. ...very sexy, figuratively, not literally.
>
> the only thing _not_ "gnu/linux friendly" is "sound." i hear (sorry)
> others have gotten it to work on their sonys, but mine has been a
> "pita." (specifically, the card bus, sound, and usb controllers are
> all on irq 9; and "sound" just doesn't like sharing an irq, from what
> i can tell. what happens is that i get 2 seconds of sound that just
> repeats, locking the box to the point of requiring a hard boot.)
>
this may be a stupid suggestion but it sounds more like a dma problem
rather than an irq one. My soundcard will only loop sound if the dma's
are wrong. Try dma=1 and dma=0 (or any other combination).
good luck
Alex
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