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Dear Linuxers,

I am the (partially happy) owner of a P90 Intel Plato mainboard; I bought
a J-MED1930 sound card which (besides claiming SB 16 Pro compatibility)
is a MAD 16 PRO. I see that by default it uses IRQ 7 and it is not
possible to steadily remap it to asnother IRQ. Unfortunately I have no
way to change my parallel printer interface IRQ, which is 7 as well.

I can properly initialize my sound card and use its features only when my
parallel printer is disabled.

Any of you knows what I am doing wrong? Is it possible to tell the card
to use a different IRQ at system boot time, or am I wrong that a utility
exists to steadily remap its IRQ to a value other than 7?

Any advice will be GREATLY appreciated; I will post a summary afterwards.
If you think that the only viable solution is boot DOS, then use the DOS
utility to move the IRQ, please add advice of a sound card that will give
me sufficient flexibility so that I can fully configure it without
resorting to DOS, as I would rather change it than use this ugly
procedure (AGAIN, I DON'T HAVE---nor tolerate---DOS/WIN).

Thanks A LOT in advance!

Marco Bravi

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Marco

Marco Bravi                   |
Dip. Ing. Chimica M. M. P. M. |
via Eudossiana, 18            | Phone #: (+39) (6) 44584780
I - 00184 Roma                | Fax#:    (+39) (6) 4837453 - 44585519

If you are using xconfig or menuconfig, the IO-port/Interrupt for the
MAD-16 are at the very bottom, past everything else. They are easy to
overlook.

Note that Linux 1.2 kernel did not support the MAD-16. Best bet there is
to configure it in DOS as a Microsoft Sound System card at a decent
IRQ, then boot into Linux.

I also had a problem with my MAD 16 Pro soundcard and it was that kernel
config suggested DMA channel 3 as the default. My card seems to work OK
only with DMA channel 1 though.

Thought this might help someone having similar problem..

Martynas