Re: tlug: Running X with Riva128

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Austin Kurahone wrote:

> >> 
> >
> >Try it.  The Riva128 *must* have an IRQ assigned to it in order to work
> >with Linux, BTW.  Make sure that your CMOS is assigning it one, and 
> that
> >it's not conflicting with your fancy-pants SCSI and sound cards :)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If I recall correctly, the BIOS should automaticaly set up the IRQ's 
> durring boot.  I use a configuration that's mostly the same, except I'm 
> using the Diamond V330AGP card which is based on the same chipset.  I 
> think that my card uses the default IRQ of 11.  And this setup works 
> fine with RedHat 5.1 with kernel 2.0.35, so I suspect that it is a IRQ 
> conflict.

On many BIOSes, you have to tell the CMOS to 'Assign IRQ for VGA'.  Not
all of them do it automatically, and they shouldn't, because you don't
want that behavior unless your card requires it, which the Riva 128 does.

> 
> Also on a similar note, do AudioPCI based soundcards work with Linux, 
> becuase I am looking into obtaining one to replace by antiquated SB16 
> PnP.

I don't think any of them work with the free sound drivers in Linux.  If
you get the commercial OSS, those I think support them.

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