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Date:      Fri, 27 Dec 1996 00:12:55 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        peter@clari.net.au (Peter Hawkins)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help with sb
Message-ID:  <199612261342.AAA24579@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199612261321.AAA12236@rhiannon.clari.net.au> from Peter Hawkins at "Dec 27, 96 00:21:02 am"

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Peter Hawkins stands accused of saying:
> I have been ahving terrible problems with my sb Pro 3.1 clone. My 2.1.5
> kernel was compiled with:
> 
> controller      snd0
> device sb0      at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 conflicts drq 1 vector sbintr

Sharing interrupts with your parallel port is a Bad Idea.

> *yet* Whenever I try and use it, the device locks up after playing
> for a second or two.

This is characteristic of interrupt problems.  Try another interrupt.

> I have a prnter also on irq7 though it was switched off at the time and
> even killing lpd didn't help. I assume having a sb and parallel port both
> on 7 is pretty standard anyway so it seems unlikely this is the problem.

It's not "standard".  It's extremely evil and should not be
contemplated.

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