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Re: How to find DMA, IRQ etc. Was: OPTi sound card support



On Mon, 01 May 2000 03:54:21 PDT, John Bagdanoff writes:
>On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 05:04:39PM +1000, Douglas M. Hespe wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 02:55:32PM +0200, Kent Nyberg wrote (inter alia):
>> 
>> > Just set the right dma and irq stuff, and it will work.
>> 
>> Does anyone know how to find out these things without resort to MSD,
>> the Micro$oft Diagnostics.  My machine is pure Debian 2.1r4 and, 
>> although I could probably borrow a copy of DOS 6.2 and put it on 
>> a small partition, I would rather not for both legal and personal
>> reasons.  Apropos irq/IRQ/dma/DMA gave "nothing appropriate" in 
>> each case.
>> 
>Goto:
>http://www.opensound.com/
>
>download & install their OSS for linux. It's free for about
>3 hours or so.  Soundconfig will
>see your card and you can note the settings. 

another approach would be to browse through /proc/[pci,ioports,dma,irq]
and/or fingering around with pnpdump for ISA-cards.

hth,
&rw
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