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thunder7@xs4all.nl (jwk) wrote:

>>Second question: In Windows98, I see my motherboard 
>>sound system is simulating an SB16, IRQ7, DMA 1,7
>>I/O 220-22F, with MPU (that's MIDI right?) on port 
>>0330-0331. Works great in Windoze. Yet when I try to 
>>Xconfigurate those settings in Linux, I get 'system 
>>busy' errors.  Any ideas?
>I bet 'simulating' doesn't work. You'll need to know your exact
>motherboard type, then ask again, after searching
>http://www.dejanews.com.
>
>Good luck,
>Jurriaan

Hey thanks sir!

Got my video problem solved, getting RPMs downloaded 
in Windoze, transferred to floppy, and copied into
Linux partition after mounting /dev/fd0 -t msdos /mnt/floppy.
Got to see Gnome under 3dfx Voodoo Banshee.  Cool!
(In case others of you with a similar problem are reading 
this, I found it helpful to shorten filenames to 8.3
e.g. 3dfxsetp.rpm while still in Windows, as the transfer 
across to Linux loses the hugely long file names -- makes 
it harder to know what you're looking at).

And for awhile I had the sound problem licked.  Finally
noticed Redhat was saying the chip it detected was "good 
for many motherboards" (mine AMD K6-2) next to the option 
it had autodetected.  So I stopped trying to tell it 
I had an SB 16 (which is how Windoze treats it), and 
changed the IRQ and DMA manually.  I was getting my 
.wav file sound effects in the Gnome interface, if not 
MIDI.  

But since then I've been dinking around with NICs, trying 
to tell Linux I have two ethernet cards, but only the 3com 
on IRQ 10 is relevant to the internet -- and in the process 
I lost sound somehow (even though I'm not using IRQ 10 
for sound, to the best of my knowledge).

This is all familiar territory from fighting with Windows
(had to kill PCI Steering to get my video and NICs to 
stop fighting, or something like that -- based on some
obscure "knowledge base" stuff at the MSFT website). 

I realize my IQ has fallen to about 50 in this new Linux 
world, given I hardly know anything about where the 
text configuration files really live, or even how to 
navigate outside of Gnome (I've been popping up stuff
in emacs to take a peek).  But I'll be studying all 
that of course, and plan to offer help to newbies like 
myself when I'm a little older and wiser someday.

Kirby