ok guys, i know i infested that one thread before but i know officially knoww ahtt he problem is on my system (after doing weeks of research and playing around. also mad props to hexbit for helping me out)

my soundcard isn't getting an IRQ assigned to it. i appended "pci=biosirq" into my lilo config file (like dmesg recomended) and it still doesn't work. i have read that somewhere there is some kind of interaction with the bios picking stuff for the pci devices and that you need to change your O/S in the bios. however, all i have in my bios is ACPI O/S.

i've also read that if you get that problem you might want to open your baby up and change some jumpers. problem beign i'm on a laptop and not too comfortable with taking this thing apart (considering that i've never done it and who knows if i could get it back together again).

is there ANY other option? by the way, here is my dmesg. at least it doesn't tell me to do pci=biosirq. i think thats a step forward.

Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk (flepied@bi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009e800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003def0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003def0000 - 000000003deff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003deff000 - 000000003df00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003df00000 - 000000003e000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Warning only 896MB will be used.
Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
896MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 229376
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 225280 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=303 quiet noapic devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi pci=biosirq acpi=off
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 2191.120 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 4364.69 BogoMIPS
Memory: 904088k/917504k available (1410k kernel code, 13024k reserved, 1118k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.20GHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122
ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9ae, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 00:02.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 00:0a.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 00:02.6
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 00:0b.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 00:0b.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xf8800000, size 32768k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=7
vesafb: protected mode interface info at cade:000c
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 25593 bytes).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x16
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 8250
PCI: Enabling device 00:02.6 (0000 -> 0001)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin C of device 00:02.6.
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.5
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SiS650 ATA 100 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hdaio, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddio
hda: TOSHIBA MK4018GAP, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03cb420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: DW-28E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78140160 sectors (40008 MB), CHS=4864/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 >
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 143k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:03) ...
Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS version 3.6.25
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xfa9f3000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xfa9f5000, IRQ 10
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.3, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
Adding Swap: 1895628k swap-space (priority -1)
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 15:29:58 Mar 14 2003
PCI: Enabling device 00:02.7 (0000 -> 0001)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin C of device 00:02.7.
i810: SiS 7012 found at IO 0x1800 and 0x1c00, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 0
i810_audio: unable to allocate irq 0
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: TEAC Model: DW-28E Rev: 1.0A
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
NTFS driver 2.1.1a [Flags: R/O MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
ohci1394: $Rev: 693 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Enabling device 00:0b.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:0b.0 to 64
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[3e000800-3e000fff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: SelfID completion called outside of bus reset!
ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[0090f5000012145a] [Linux OHCI-1394]
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xfab7d000, 00:90:f5:12:14:5a, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1.
Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 00:0c.0
Yenta IRQ list 02d0, PCI irq5
Socket status: 30000006
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 15:29:58 Mar 14 2003
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin C of device 00:02.7.
i810: SiS 7012 found at IO 0x1800 and 0x1c00, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 0
i810_audio: unable to allocate irq 0
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Splash status on console 0 changed to off


also /dev/dsp doesn't seem to exist. is that because the soundcard isn't getting an irq (are these problems related) or is a whole another issue that i need to be stressing over?