Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux
On 7 Jan, Damon Muller wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> This one has got me beat, and I'm hoping someone in debian-land might be
> able to help me out.
>
> I got a vibra 16 card (soundblaster) from a friend, but it didn't come
> with any driver disks or anything like that. Unfortunately it is a
> jumperless card, and I have no way of setting the IRQs and DMAs under
> linux (or even finding out what they are) so I can set it up to run
> under Linux.
>
> I went to the creative web site and downloaded the dos/win31 drivers,
> thinking this would solve my problem. Not so! It refuses to install the
> dos configuration programs under win98 dos... My linux box only has
> linux on it, so I can't just boot it to dos, and the install program
> doesn't like working under DOSEmu.
>
> So, at the moment, I seem to be a little stuck. I'm thinking maybe if I
> can get hold of the program to set up the board under DOS, I can boot
> linux with a dos boot disk, and set it up from there. The zip from
> creative contains it, but it's compressed, and only the install program
> can uninstall it.
>
> If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Any suggestions are more
> than welcome.
>
> thanks,
>
> damon
>
>
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What type of BIOS do you have? my PCI PnP bios auto-configured the
card and I used win98 to find out the irq and dma. There is a package
called isapnptools that has similar functions. Get it, read the docs,
ask the list if you need more help.
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