Hey guys, I have an ESS1869 based soundcard. It's a 16 bit ISA PnP setup, and the DOS config utility for it can only set the IRQ relative to the OS (basically w hat I'm saying is the config utility modifies your existing config.sys and autoexec.bat, doesn't help in linux, i don't think..). They supply no drivers in linux.

Had a problem the other night after I installed my Promise ultra66. Sound card kept cutting out, acting/playing things ultra slow. Worse than it usually does (which is another problem I'll ask about later...). Anyway, long story short (well not really), I ended up having to assign the rest of the IRQ's I had set aside for the remaining 2 PCI slots to be available to ISA, and open up 2 more DMA channels. This is on an Asus P5A-B motherboard w/AMD K62-500 (not like that helps).

Anyway, sound is fixed now. But my question is, I know I can go into the bios and trial-and-error enable/disable resources to free things up to add another NIC to my box, but I'd rather just go into terminal or somewhere in Gnome/KDE and find out what resources my soundcard is using, so I can configure the BIOS around it since it's working now. This is a temporary setup, but I would like it to work.

Any help is appreciated.

Look in or cat /proc/{dma,interrupts,iomem,ioports,isapnp} or use the "isapnp" utility.

thx for the help, mang. Got it all figga'd out. Extra nic is in and I'm on the way to network heaven.