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need to learn hardware troubleshooting - sound hardware conflict

need to learn hardware troubleshooting - sound hardware conflict

Post by Martin Helme » Fri, 25 Aug 2000 04:00:00



I seem to have a port conflict problem then installing my soundcard:
"
 >dmesg
 [...]
 sam9407[#0:st128pci]: I/O port 0xfcf2 already in use
"

This seems to be a good oppurtunity for me to learn hardware
troubleshooting, but I don't?know the diagnostic commands to check
IRQs, port-use etc.

Could someone please tip me on a good resource, or simply give me a
tip of useful commands / methods.

Or - if you feel like it - help me with my specific problem:
 Card: Soundtrack 128DDMA
 Module sam9407 loaded ok in the kernel, and the devs
 /dev/sam[01]_* exist.

The problem might be that my on-soundcard-board 72-pin RAM sucks but
I'm not sure.

/thanx
Martin Helmer

 
 
 
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need to learn hardware troubleshooting - sound hardware conflict

Post by D. Stimit » Fri, 25 Aug 2000 04:00:00



> I seem to have a port conflict problem then installing my soundcard:
> "
>  >dmesg
>  [...]
>  sam9407[#0:st128pci]: I/O port 0xfcf2 already in use
> "

> This seems to be a good oppurtunity for me to learn hardware
> troubleshooting, but I don't know the diagnostic commands to check
> IRQs, port-use etc.

> Could someone please tip me on a good resource, or simply give me a
> tip of useful commands / methods.

> Or - if you feel like it - help me with my specific problem:
>  Card: Soundtrack 128DDMA
>  Module sam9407 loaded ok in the kernel, and the devs
>  /dev/sam[01]_* exist.

> The problem might be that my on-soundcard-board 72-pin RAM sucks but
> I'm not sure.

> /thanx
> Martin Helmer

Some useful things to check man page on, or explore:
/etc/isapnp.conf
/etc/modules.conf or conf.modules (depends on dist)
/etc/lilo.conf  (general kernel options that can be passed)
/proc/    (in general)
/proc/interrupts
/proc/ioports
/proc/pci
/var/log/  (in general)
/var/log/messages

lspci
setpci
insmod
depmod
lsmod
tail -f  (such as "tail -f n 30 /var/log/messages" during module insert)

 
 
 
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would like a card with this cards features and about the same price, but I
need to know that it really works w/linux.  Also can any one tell me anything
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