[PLUG] SB Live's Revenge

Paul Kuliniewicz kuliniew@purdue.edu
Fri, 06 Oct 2000 13:36:19 -0500


>Coming from a user of SB Live under Linux, I would say it doesn't make a 
>lick of
>difference what IRQ the SB Live is on.  I believe PCI devices are 
>automatically
>mapped to free IRQ's by the BIOS upon boot and the drivers should be able 
>to find
>the device no matter what.  In fact, I think it's impossible for two PCI 
>devices to
>have an IRQ conflict as you can map multiple devices to the same IRQ.  The 
>only
>problem is when you have too many ISA devices and they eat up all the 
>IRQ's before
>the PCI's get a chance.  I thought with PCI, the days of IRQ conservation were
>over.  If we didn't need to provide ISA backwards compatibility, numbered 
>IRQ's
>could be eliminated completely.  Anyway, I would look elsewhere to solve the
>problem.

Well, then, in that case, any other ideas for what's going wrong 
here?  Once again I've run out of ideas.  Everything seems OK, but the 
sound still won't work.  Argh.