Sound Card problem

[Martin Andersen <s747 ii uib no>]

Hi!

It seems that my sound card on my sisters PC here doesn't work properly.
It is a lame ESS Audiodrive 1880 (or something).
After quite a bit of IRQ struggling I got it "working".

By that I mean that I normally get sound, but sometimes it
throws a 

kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

message into /var/log/messages.

If you've tried the x11amp program, you (might) notice that it uses
direct-to-IRQ output, and therefore must be SUID root. Now;
because of this it is unable to output any sound at all.
I am definately sure that the IRQs isn't configured correctly, but
trying to get it to use IRQ 7 instead of 5, which is what I am using
now, does not help.

IRQ 7 is what Suxx'95 says it is using anyway, but when I changed
it to use IRQ 5, Linux wanted to use IRQ 7! :)

Of course this sound card is a "&"#%#& Plug & Pray card, so that
is prolly the reason that it isn't working right.
I've tried isapnptools, but it didn't detect anything (using
`pnpdump'). Now it just hangs my whole system when using it. :/

Any ideas?


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