Re: Sound Card

[Joop Stakenborg <aba@casema.net>]

> Hi folks,
> 
> Another (probably) dumb question, about the sound module for my SoundBlaster
> card...  During the config (menuconfig) one is asked for the IRQ and DMA
> settings, but it seems to expect one DMA of 1 or 3, and another of either
> 5,6, or 7.  This worked fine on my other PC (Jazz16 with IRQ7, DMA 3,5) but
> my soundblaster is DMA 1 and 3... the sound module compile and installs
> (even loads with insmod OK), but when called (xquake starts) it has an error
> during the DMA initialisation...
> 
> Am I missing something obvious here?

In dos and windows you will see a low DMA (1) and a high DMA (3).
In linux it is not the same. Don't know why.
You have to use 1 and 5 with the linux sound driver....

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
> 

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 Joop pa3aba@debian.org