Fix for Section 7.2.1.1 - Soundblaster 16 driver

[Fred Wheeler]

On 9/15/05, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> Thanks a lot!

You're welcome, but I don't see what I did other than send some
misguided suggestions that resulted from my own misunderstanding.

> I have a last thing to ask you, are you able to change the card IRQ via
> /boot/device.hints with a line like:
> 
> hint.sbc.0.irq="5"
> 
> or with any other "free" IRQ?

I'm not sure why you're asking this, but here goes ...

I am able to change the irq on the SB16 card to any of 4 different
values with the jumpers.  I did get it to work originally with
hint.sbc.0.irq="5".  However, the network card I have is also at irq 5
and either cannot be changed or can only be changed with some software
tool I do not have (no jumpers).  So, I changed the SB16 jumpers and
the hint.sbc.0.irq setting so I could use both cards at the same time.
 There was some trial and error involved.  I tried all irq values the
SB16 card supports, only irq 10 worked.  irq 5 is used by the network
card.    Another irq is one of the serial or parallel ports.  Yet
another SB16 supported irq seemed to be "free", but did not work for
me - perhaps it was not really free and I missed something on the BIOS
screens.  That's how I ended up with non-default hint.sbc.0 settings
(at least different from what's in the snd_sbc man page).

Regards,
Fred Wheeler