disabling/enabling 2 devices on 1 irq?

[Lance Hoffmeyer <lance@augustmail.com>]

I have two sound cards.  A Delta66 and a SB16.  The Delta66 does not have any place
where one can attach a cable from another peripheral (Voodoo3 TV or CD) into it
to play sound.  Therefore, I assume I must use the SB16 for this purpose.  Unfortunately,
I have too many cards and not enough IRQ's.  Therefore, I got a brilliant idea!

I would set both the Delta66 and the SB16 on the same IRQ and disable one while using
the other.  This is something that can be done in Win2000.  I assume it can be done
in Linux as well.  I read a little on the PCI HOWTO and downloaded the pciutils but I
am not sure:

a) Howto to make both the SB16 and ICE1712 (Delta66) have the same IRQ (IRQ11)?

b) If they ARE both on the same IRQ is it simply a matter of loading and unloading modules?


I am doing this primarily because I cannot get sound from my Voodoo3 TV video card.  I assume
it is because I don't have the cable connected from the videocard into a soundcard (similar to
the cable that runs from a CD to the soundcard).

Any help would be appreciated.

Lance

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                                Lance Hoffmeyer
                              lance@augustmail.com

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