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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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Subject: ISA Plug & Play support in ALSA
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Hi!

	I added to ALSA driver my ISA PnP driver which may help users
to initialize soundcard without isapnptools. I'll try enforce my ISA PnP
driver to Linux kernel soon.

Installation steps:

1) get latest CVS source for driver 0.3.0pre1
2) read INSTALL file (mainly section about ISA PnP)
3) compile driver with ISA PnP support (./configure --with-isapnp=yes)
4) insert driver to kernel (you can ommit hardware parameters like ports,
   irqs, dmas)
5) enjoy ISA PnP detection and auto-configuration

Note that all parameters for soundcard is working in usual way (you may
override any value and you still don't need run any program from
isapnptools). Information about ISA PnP status can be read from
/proc/isapnp file.

If you have some trouble with detection, please, send me your /proc/isapnp
file or isapnp.conf file or patch for your driver (PnP identification is
in begin of top level modules for soundcard).

ISA PnP support isn't done for snd-card-cs4232 driver - can someone who
uses this driver send me contents of /proc/isapnp or isapnp.conf?. Thank
you.

I welcome any feedback... If I don't encounter any fatal bugs in isapnp.o
module in few next days, I'll post announce to linux-kernel mailing list
to enforce inclusion of my ISA PnP driver to kernel. I think that this
driver should solve all trouble with ISA PnP devices like internal modem
cards, ethernet cards etc...

							Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
Branisovska 31, C. Budejovice, CZ-370 05 Czech Republic


