Re: [aclug-L] Linux on store shelves

[Bob Deep <bobd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jeffrey L. Hansen" wrote:
> 
> Funny you should mention switching PCI slots.  I bought a Sound Blaster
> PCI128 card for my kids' game computer a while back.  Recently I decided to
> be good dad and I sprung for a Sound Blaster Live, since it seems to be the
> new flagship.  The bottom line to the dilemma is I simply took one card out
> and put the other one in its place but couldn't get the software to load
> nor get the card to work.  I had to move it to another slot.  Explain to
> me, if you dare why that was necessary when I had another card - a sound
> blaster, no less - in the same slot. 

I think it has to do with the way they handle PNP...  When you switched
slots, your sound card would now be on a differant interrupt (or at
least your BIOS would notice something changed.)

> The best I can figure is that even
> though I went through the registry and system files line by line and ripped
> out all vestiges of sound anything and PCI128 anything it still though I
> had another sound card in the system. 

Yea.. Your BIOS most likely did...  I'd not blame windows this time,
unless you know your BIOS is not doing the configuration of the PNP
stuff..

> I'll never defend Win95
> heavy-handedness, only its ease of installation.  

Personally, I've had much more troubble with 95 than linux...  But hey,
that may just be me.

-= Bob =-
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