[plug] ESS Audio Card and Real Encoder

[Len Bird]

I had a lot of trouble with an Ensonic  PCI Sound Card. In my case the
solution is to be found in the BIOS setup
By default the BIOS does not always accept the IRQ setup, in fact
usually the PCI/??? is disabled. You
will need to know which IRQ the Sound card uses in my case it was IRQ-9
, but this can vary. Whatever
enable the PCI support part of your BIOS and of course the appropriate
IRQ. This works for RedHat 6.2
I cannot vouch for other distros, but it is worth a try.  The main
problem is that ALL of the Hardware
you get is designed to pander to M$ by default, and you often have to
change the BIOS setups for other
O/Systems.

I would appreciate knowing if this solves your problem,

Regards,  Len Bird


Andrew Furey wrote:

> > linux kernel: Sound: DMA (input) timed out - IRQ/DRQ
> > config error?
>
> Hi Kai,
>
> I don't know if you've had any off-list help with
> this, but I didn't see any other replies, so here's my
> 2 cents worth.
>
> I've had the same problem on some other machines (not
> streaming, just general sound card use), so I went
> looking on the kernel mailing list archives about it.
>
> I recall seeing a post (sorry, don't have a URL) from
> Alan Cox, from a couple of years ago I think. He said
> something to the effect that this is a known Linux
> kernel problem, which only affects ISA sound cards.
>
> You might try using a PCI one, and see if that helps.
> I haven't had any problems with my current PCI card.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Andrew
>
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