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Hi Dale,
I am posting this to the ng so that wiser heads can correct me if necessary,
but I seem to remember from either the isapnptools man page or their web
page that they specifically stated that isapnp DOES NOT function for PCI
cards... Comments please?

Dave
reddwarf@octa4.net.au

Dale Woodside wrote in message <369B434C.8C6@zeus.mpce.mq.edu.au>...
>With regards to sound problems.  Here's mine.  I have a new
>Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI card and the Aopen PII motherboard
>has re-mapped the I/O base address to 0x6800, (that is
>according to Creative's DOS Plug'n'Pray CTCU the I/O range
>is 0x6801 to 0x68c0).  The mb did the same thing to the NE2000
>PCI clone, mapping it to 0x7000, but by putting the IRQ=10 in
>the /etc/conf.modules file the network card is correctly found.
>
>However, the same trick does not work with the PCI audio card
>in trying to make it use the sb module, because the sb module
>needs DMA, etc stuff that PCI doesn't use, and sndconfig won't
>let you choose outside of four legacy I/O addresses.  I did
>manually put the 0x6800 address into /etc/conf.modules after I
>ran sndconfig, choosing AWE32 (and all the others too), and I
>left the dummy DMA settings of 1 and 6, etc, but the
>/dev/dsp fails initialization during reboot.  Other factors I
>have played with: I have manually set the mb bios to IRQ 5 for
>the sound card's slot.  (This worked fine for the network
>card's slot). Also, I have set the mb pnp config to non-pnp OS,
>and I tried the pnp OS setting as well...  The card works fine
>under Win NT 4.0 SP4 using FAT 16 on the same hard drive in a
>different partition.
>
>So how do I get my Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI card to work on
>my Aopen PII motherboard running RH5.0?  Where might I find
>the software?  I've ported much software to Unix systems and
>am not afraid to hack the code.
>
>Dale Woodside
>mailto:dale@mpce.mq.edu.au