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Re: pnp conflicts



On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 01:14:58PM -0700, nate wrote:
> David Jardine said:
> > The latest of my twice-a-year searches for ways to set
> > up sound threw up "pnpdump -c". Its output, however,
> > included the line:
> >
> > (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
> >
> > which sounds to me like, "Sorry, mate.  You're out of
> > luck.  We've tried 'em all and there's just no way."
> >
> > Is it really as bad as that?
> 
> depends.. i was playing with isapnp for the first time in
> about 4-5 years last night on a laptop for a modem ..I changed
> everything to WARNING, 

Does that mean substituting all the occurrences of "WARNING" 
by "FATAL" in that line?

>								 and didn't have any real problems. If
> it conflicts with a device that you don't use I wouldn't expect
> any problems. (e.g. a parallel or serial port). worst thing
> I think that can happen is a lockup. i would only experiment
> with that stuff in single user to be most safe..
> 
> nate

Thanks for the encouragement.  I'll keep going.

David



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