Re: [aclug-L] Linux on store shelves

["Jeffrey L. Hansen" <jhansen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:09 PM 3/24/99 +0100, you wrote:



> "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.
If I ever get to the point where my Linux box starts to work then maybe 
I'll be the same.  Until then, I cling to the success I've had.  Looks like 
I'll be reloading my machine again anyway, maybe 10th time will be the charm.

> -= Bob =-
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