6.06 cfg / ISA cards - Etherlink III - Sound Blaster 16 (Was: Ubuntu Dapper (6.06) Install fails on cdrom open, kernel panic -- please help)

[Greg Madden]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:20:02 +0000
Alain -- <ubuntu at asoundmove.net> wrote:

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> From/De [Greg Madden]
> On/Le [2006/07/28 04:11]
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> > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:28:21 +0000
> > Alain -- <ubuntu at asoundmove.net> wrote:
> <...>
> >> I have other concerns for now: getting the network
> >> card & sound card to be recognised by ubuntu.
> (1997 Gateway2000 PPro 200MHz)
> <...>
> > An old box like that probably has some ISA slots, does the sound
> > card reside in one of these? You have to set up ISA cards manually. 
> 
> Yes, you're spot on.
> 
> Both the 3Com Etherlink III (1994) and the Sound Blaster 16 (1995)
> cards are in ISA slots.
> However the EuroViva CommCentre 33.6 modem also is in an ISA slot and 
> was, strangely, automatically detected at install time, or so it
> seems.
> 
> In PCI slots I have an adaptec 2903B SCSI(2?) card (external +
> internal) and an STB/S3 Virge/VX 4+4MB Graphics card. They seem to be
> recognised, however ubuntu does not 'know' (device configuration)
> that the S3 Virge is a graphics card - which is strange as graphics
> seem to work just about Ok (lots of flicker, there was no flicker
> with Win98).
> 
> Regards,
> Alain.
> 

There is a 'musrt have' utility for working on 3com isa nic cards
'3c5x9cfg.exe', loaded onto a dos boot disk.The is allows you test the
registers and set the I/O, IRQ & address. Some bios's allow you to
manually set IRQ's for certain ISA slots. Make sure the assigned IRQ is
not a conflict with any existing IRQ's given to PCI devices.

The video driver is probably the vesa driver, it is a safe driver to
use when the system can't figure out the real driver. I don't know how
to change this in the Ubuntu gui, but from a command line of choice:
'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' should run through the
configuration and let you select the proper driver for the video card
and refresh rates for your monitor.

-- 
Greg Madden