FW: Sound card - soundblaster 16 by Creative Technologies

Collin McClendon (collin.mcclendon@yale.edu)
Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:36:34 -0500

You should have looked more carefully at what dmesg is telling you, it
appears that something else is using irq 7 and that would be your printer
port, lpt1. Unless you have turned it off in your bios of course.... I'm not
sure how you can force your soundblaster to use another irq, except I think
windows can do this, maybe there is a util you can boot off a flopyy which
can mess with the eeproms and change the irq. If you don't have a printr you
could also disable the parallel port.
-Cmc

-----Original Message-----
From: rinendra.shakya@yale.edu [mailto:rinendra.shakya@yale.edu]
Sent: Friday, February 12, 1999 1:15 PM
To: linux-list@pantheon.yale.edu
Subject: Sound card - soundblaster 16 by Creative Technologies

Hello:

This is what my /var/log/dmesg says:

Sound initialization started
sb: Interrupt test on IRQ7 failed - Probable IRQ conflict
<Sound Blaster 16 (4.13)> at 0x220 irq 7 dma 1,5
<Sound Blaster 16> at 0x330 irq 7 dma 0
Sound initialization complete

I have been trying to get Real Audio Player to work. It comes up but
there is no sound. It does not even play local files on the hard disk. I
followed all the instructions that came with it. I can play CD's so to a
certain extent I think the computer knows my sound card. The
documentation said if I can access the home page www.real.com by
clicking on the logo in the upper right corner of the GUI, then
everything is working. I can do this too. There is no sound however.

I think the player is not piping/sending the sound to the right port? so
that it gets to the speakers. Can anyone please help?

Rinendra

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