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From: herman dumont <herman.dumont@ping.be>
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Subject: Re: Help with PCI128
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Hi,

i am not sure, but have you put your PCI card in a pcislot with busmastering .
Some slots are not busmastered, for instance the isa/pci shared slots.
Can you set busmastering on and off in your bios? Take a look.

Hope this helps

mc8644.com@mclink.it wrote:

> --
> Nicola Fabiano, <mc8644@mclink.it>
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Hello all.
> I have just bought a Creative PCI 128.
> I have tried to make it work very hard under alsa 0.20-pre 10
> without success (yes, I've read the instructions and done everything).
> I am unable to make it work also under 95 (well, work....)
> Then I decided to try OSS Sound.
> At this point I started wondering about hardware.
>
> This is the syslog after I tried to play a wav file under OSS:
>
> ...
> Nov 13 00:16:01 uno kernel: AudioPCI: Looks like bus mastering is not working
> Nov 13 00:16:02 uno kernel: AudioPCI: Output timed out.
> Nov 13 00:16:02 uno kernel: AudioPCI: Looks like bus mastering is not working
> Nov 13 00:16:02 uno kernel: AudioPCI: Output timed out.
> Nov 13 00:16:02 uno kernel: AudioPCI: Looks like bus mastering is not working
> ...
>
> and so on. NOW it seems hardware, as everything has been recognised BUT no soud
> yet. Actually I have tried 2 IRQs, and never had a single request performed.
> Is the card broken ? If so, how comes it's been recognised ?
>
> THe mb is an Asus sp-97v (SiS 5598 chipset), 128M, all 4 PCIs are occupied.
> K6-300, MAtrox Mill II 8 megs ,SCSI Asus 875, network NE2000 PCI, no ISA now.
>
> If needed I will post all the relevant configuration files, but they seem OK as
> I had no complaints with any program used (aplay, alsamixer, etc)
>
> And yes, the mixer IS NOT muted.
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated.
>
> Thank you
> Nicola Fabiano


