Steven Grunza writes:
> At 01:31 PM 7/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >On 09 Jul 1998 15:47:42 -0400 
> > "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> >
> > > It appears that sound blasters and most other sound cards these days
> > > use IRQ 5.
> > > 
> > > Our default configs use IRQ 7.
> > > 
> > > Are there any objections to my changing the defaults in GENERIC from
> > > irq 7 to irq 5 for the sound blaster?
> >
> >That would be fine... esp considering IRQ 7 is usually used by the
> >parallel port!
> 
> Since it caused major problems for me, I'm wondering why there is _ANY_
> sound card support in the GENERIC kernel?

Without the soundcard definition, PCMCIA devices won't work right at
all. They'll try to allocate the sound card's IRQ.

Furthermore, GENERIC is just that -- almost everything we support.

Perry