Rick Hawkins wrote: > > After playing for an extended period with the default settings, I finally > figured out why my sound card wouldn't work: the defaults in the kernel > package use Irq 7 rather than 5. Isn't 5 the standard on this?
"standard"? Surely you jest. Yeah, it's also the "standard" for a lot of other ISA cards whose manufacturer decided that 5 should be the "standard" IRQ for their board. I believe this myth has originated because the Creative Labs Soundblaster board factory-defaults to an IRQ of 5. This by no means makes it a standard. Since there are only 15 IRQs on the Intel (AT) platform and closer to half of them are actually usable by add-on boards, there can't ever be a standard on a given board (or board-type, eg. "sound card") using a certain IRQ. Granted there are "tendencies" one sees among manufacturers. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
