Very Computer

Hi. People have been very helpful before, so I'll
try my luck with this one.

I have RH 5.0 i386 installed, with
        Soundblaster 16 (ISA pnp)
        Stealth 3d 2000 pro (PCI)
        network card (dlink) (PCI)
        video capture card (PCI)
        modem (ISA pnp)
        Award BIOS

        LILO is used to boot either linux or win95

Everything works fine. I have isapnp.conf and conf.modules all
setup so sound and modem work fine. (I have isapnp.conf set up
to match the pnp ird/dma/io settings that my bios initially sets for
the modem and SB16)

The problem:
        I wanted to switch to try and use a sound card
        with a yamaha opl3 chipset, which I've used in win95.

        But when I put that card in, and power on, the BIOS apparently
        recognizes the Yamaha card and tries to do some initialization
        (or is it LILO?)..

        It flashes a message that it sees the
        yamaha and the modem on ISA, as opposed to the SB16 and the modem.

        But then it all hangs, after boot:dos or boot:linux
        because it trys to load HIMEM.SYS, and can't
        get to my win95 C: partition. And complains about not being
        able to control A20. It seems like the BIOS or LILO is trying
        to setup extended memory, when it sees my yamaha card.

I didn't try this yamaha card with this particular bios before (it worked
fine with another Acer bios)...so I'm not sure if this is a bios issue,
or a LILO issue.

I'm hoping this will make sense to someone who's run into the same issue.

Installing the yamaha card and drivers for WIN95 in another system,
does make some funny things happen at BIOS initialization
time (on another system) I was never really sure what all it was doing.
(I was using the drivers from the yamaha web site)

-kevin

Quote:> Everything works fine. I have isapnp.conf and conf.modules all
> setup so sound and modem work fine. (I have isapnp.conf set up
> to match the pnp ird/dma/io settings that my bios initially sets for
> the modem and SB16)

> The problem:
>    I wanted to switch to try and use a sound card
>    with a yamaha opl3 chipset, which I've used in win95.

>    But when I put that card in, and power on, the BIOS apparently
>    recognizes the Yamaha card and tries to do some initialization
>    (or is it LILO?)..

Quote:>    It flashes a message that it sees the
>    yamaha and the modem on ISA, as opposed to the SB16 and the modem.

Quote:>    But then it all hangs, after boot:dos or boot:linux
>         because it trys to load HIMEM.SYS, and can't
>    get to my win95 C: partition. And complains about not being
>    able to control A20. It seems like the BIOS or LILO is trying
>    to setup extended memory, when it sees my yamaha card.

> I didn't try this yamaha card with this particular bios before (it worked
> fine with another Acer bios)...so I'm not sure if this is a bios issue,
> or a LILO issue.

        Under linux, the drivers you need are the WSS drivers, NOT the
SB16 drivers. I found this out the hard way. Then, once you have the
drivers compiled, you need to have isapnp configure the card to make it
work with the drivers. I'd reccomend compiling the sound drivers as
modules.... it speeds up your testing time by about a factor of 1000. If
you're lucky, you'll only spend a couple of hours trying to get it to
work. It took me forever (mostly because I'd never messed with isapnp
before). If you need a sample isapnp.conf file to get the sound card
working, let me know and I'll send you mine, along with the .config file I
used to compile my kernel.

        Rakis