From: bmartin@squally.halcyon.com (bmartin) Subject: Re: problems with ev811 qic02 card on dma3 and soundcard on dma1 Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 00:06:11 GMT
layes@ug.cs.dal.ca (Jonathan Layes) writes:
> A minor inconvienience has cropped up and I was wondering if anyone
> else has experienced this. I have an ev811 qic02 card (everex, rev. 2)
> which works fine on dma1 with my cipher drive and the qic02 patches
> to pl10. The only catch is, I have an ATI stereo f/x soundcard
> (essentially a soundblaster as far as linux is concerned), which
> requires dma1. With both devices in my machine, configured as
> dma1, the tape works and the soundcard doesn't. With the ev811
> configured as dma3, the soundcard works and the tape doesn't.
>
> It is quite a nuisance to get at the jumper settings on the ev811,
> so although I can get around my problem by only setting the ev811
> to dma1 when I do a backup, this is hardly ideal. Of course, it
> is rare that I'd ever want to use the ev811 and the soundcard at
> the same time, so I'd be happy if the sound drivers weren's so
> 'picky' about grabbing dma1 and then I could just set both devices
> to use dma1.
>
> Any ideas? (also, anyone know if everex has a tech support number
> or even better, is on the net?)
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
> --
> Jonathan Layes (layes@ug.cs.dal.ca)
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you didn't say if you had reconfigured the tape software to use dma3. in
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/tpqic02.h change this to use dma3 and
recompile the kernel and see if it works the qic-02 comes configured as
dma1.