I get the error from alsa that soundcard is not detected, it worked fine before I moved NIC to another PCI slot. I have ABIT VH6-II motherboard.
here's the HW side (1 isa slot, 4 pci slots altogether): ISA 1 soundblaster awe 64 irq 5 PCI 1 voodoo 3 irq 9 PCI 2 NIC RTL8139 irq 10 (or 11) PCI 3 NIC RTL8139 irq 11 (or 10) PCI 4 empty so it doesn't look like PCI sharing problem, I check BIOS boot screen, no conflicts with irq 5 the soundcard DOES work in windows. the second NIC used to be in PCI slot 4 on irq 9 (shared with USB) dmesg soundcard related messages: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:00 isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:02 isapnp: AWE32 quirk - adding two ports isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total (that's alsa isapnp that used to work before, I didn't change any settings) syslog message when I run /etc/init.d. alsa start: Jan 2 15:57:48 localhost kernel: ALSA card-sb16.c:606: Sound Blaster 16 soundcard not found or device busy Jan 2 15:57:48 localhost kernel: ALSA card-sb16.c:608: In case, if you have non-AWE card, try snd-card-sb16 module jojda:/home/erik# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 4265524 XT-PIC timer 1: 6 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci 10: 2926 XT-PIC eth1 11: 18480 XT-PIC eth0 12: 26 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 240251 XT-PIC ide0 NMI: 0 LOC: 4265306 ERR: 0 the card is recognized by isapnp (and by pnpdump) - do I need to fine tune it? Since I have BIOS set to 'OS doesn't support PnP' I guess the isapnp might try to set up the card and not succeed... any ideas? TIA! erik