[lug] sound & modem irq??

[D. Stimits]

Jason Davis wrote:
> 
> so the big problem i had was my jumpers on my mother board...i turned
> the internal sound switch off thinking it would just turn the internal
> speaker off....it actually  turned off the internal sound card>>duh!!!
> so i have sound back in winblows and hardrake sees my card..its a
> crytstal sound fusion cs4281. now when i try <isnod cs4281> or
> <modprobe cs4281> i get the reply that device is busy??? I would like
> to get the card to work, but if its easier and still realitvly cheap i
> dont mind geting a new soundcard...any suggestions? (at least i know i
> can disable the built in one now...ha,ha)

During bootup the sound card hardware was not initialized. That can be
for a whole lot of reasons. You could be using the wrong module, or not
passing the right parameter to it, or maybe something else took it's irq
when it was disabled, and now that other item needs to be forced
elsewhere. Your friend here is a careful inspection of
/var/log/messages, dmesg output, /proc/pci (assuming it is pci, which it
probably is if integrated), and lspci -v. setpci or module options might
help get it back on track. I don't know that particular hardware, so I
can't be more specific.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> jd     jd_480 at hotmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> >From: "D. Stimits"
> >Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> >To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> >Subject: Re: [lug] sound & modem irq??
> >Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:27:17 -0600
> >
> >Jason Davis wrote:
> > >
> > > i have a e-machine running mandrake7.2. i just installed a
> external modem.
> > > the modem works fine!!(my first linox box..im using netzero and
> juno as my
> > > isp!!!)however since the modem install i have lost the soundcard
> on my
> > > winblows partion and on linux...my linux install is recent, so i
> had never
> > > got my sooundcard configed. but hardrake saw it and listed
> it....since my
> > > souncard is not on the list or detectable by harddrake. My
> soundcard is a
> > > cirrus crystal..its was working fine in winblows ...now its no
> where to be
> > > found and is undetectable. also...souncard is built in...i tried
> to load the
> > > driver maual by mopprobe and insmod it said error...bussy. PLEASE
> HELP..NO
> > > MP3s!!!
> > > IM DYING OVER HERE!!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > jd_480 at hotmail.com
> > > jason davis
> >
> >Additional note on setupd. Often the "busy" error means the hardware
> was
> >not initialized. The fact that installing the modem broke sound makes
> me
> >wonder if there was a conflict between the mode of connection (such
> as
> >serial port or usb controller) of the modem and the sound. Hard to
> tell
> >though without more information, especially on the hardware. One
> thing
> >that might be a useful test, provided you have more than one place
> you
> >can plug your modem in, e.g., maybe you have two serial ports and can
> >move the modem from one to the other, moving it to a different slot
> and
> >observing whether it alters the failure in some way (moving it over
> >would alter the hardware resources it uses).
> >
> >D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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