jen jorgensen wrote, > "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.
OK, "standard" is way to strong :) But isn't 5 a strong tendency? my $10 board doesn't even *have* a setting to change irq's . . . and it doesn't tell me what or where they are, either. [i don't really need sound, but for $10 for speakers and $10 for the board, why not? and now exmh beeps me for new mail :) ] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
