SOUND
Okay, forget all about the previous 2 posts i did. Now, it's only this one. My sound card is a Soundblaster 16 PCI, which is not included with OPENSTEP, but i found a download link for it. I installed it, and rebooted, but no sound! I rebooted with -v, and i found this while it configured drivers:
SoundBlaster16PCI: found chip, VID 0x1274 DID 0x1371 rev. 0x07
SoundBlaster16PCI: I/O Port at 0xb800 IRQ: 225
SoundBlaster16PCI: Can't set interruptList to IRQ 225 (Resource Shortage)
Any ideas? I though about simply changing the IRQ in Configure.app but, no option
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NETWORKING
I have no clue which driver to use. My card is a D-Link DFE-530TX. What driver should i use?
Quote from: "cjbriare"
SoundBlaster16PCI: found chip, VID 0x1274 DID 0x1371 rev. 0x07
SoundBlaster16PCI: I/O Port at 0xb800 IRQ: 225
SoundBlaster16PCI: Can't set interruptList to IRQ 225 (Resource Shortage)
NS/OS only supports interrup lines up to IRQ 16 as it is not capable of APIC. From this output I would guess that your BIOS is configured for an APIC capable system and thus assigning IRQ 225 which NS can't handle.
Quote from: "cjbriare"
Any ideas? I though about simply changing the IRQ in Configure.app but, no option
Interrupts to PCI cards are assigned by the mainboard bios during boot and OS/NS is not able to change that setting during runtime therefore the driver offers no option for that.
Only solution I can think of right now is to change the BIOS setting for interrupt assignment/APIC.
Morgon
Hmmm... i took a look around my BIOS settings and I don't see an APIC setting. Is APIC related to ACPI at all? They both have the same letters....
It may not be supported on my model though. I did research online and found that APIC supports multi-core CPUs. Which, i don't have.
Thanks.
APIC and ACPI are two very different things. The first is the "Advanced programmable interrupt controller" while the later is the "Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface". They are related a bit as they are both responsible for configuring the extension cards in your PC but different aspects of them
APIC itself is needed by multi core systems but even single core systems since around Intel Pentium implement it to get rid of the limitation to 16 hardware interrupts.
When I'm not wrong "Plug and Play O/S" should be the BIOS setting responsible for the configuration of all cards during boot time (at least that's what it's called on my system).
Since I never had this problem I can only guess what might have gone wrong.
Morgon
Disabling Plug-n-Play in my BIOS made the audio work!!
What about the networking?