[SLUG] ispnp

[Martin Webb]

Martin Webb wrote:

> The question arose a week or two ago "What is isapnp"?
>
From:    
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Sound-HOWTO.html

Configuring ISA Plug and Play

Some sound cards use the ISA Plug and Play protocol to configure 
settings for i/o addresses, interrupts, and DMA channels. If you have a 
newer PCI-bus type of sound card, or one of the very old ISA sound cards 
that uses fixed settings or jumpers, then you can skip this section.

The preferred way to configure Plug and Play cards is to use the isapnp 
tools which ship with most Linux distributions (or you can download them 
from Red Hat's web site http://www.redhat.com/).

First check the documentation for your Linux distribution. It may 
already have Plug and Play support set up for you or it may work 
slightly differently than described here. If you need to configure it 
yourself,the details can be found in the man pages for the isapnp tools. 
Briefly the process you would normally follow is:

- Use pnpdump to capture the possible settings for all your Plug and 
Play devices, saving the result to the file /etc/isapnp.conf.
- Choose settings for the sound card that do not conflict with any other 
devices in your system and uncomment the appropriate lines in 
/etc/isapnp.conf. Don't forget to uncomment the (ACT Y) command near the 
end.
- Make sure that isapnp is run when your system boots up, normally done 
by one of the startup scripts. Reboot your system or run isapnp manually.

These tools do not appear to be in >= 2.4  I've tried RH7.3 which is 
2.4  Has anyone got a 2.2 I could try?
"system-config-soundcard" seems to be the nearest command line command 
in Fedora Core 3.

Martin