[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer audio from TV line???

[Jonathan Rogers]

Erik Slagter wrote:
> It is very "easy" to enable the led on a ATA drive. Random i/o port
> access easily triggers the "controller" led. That's because it is all
> still compatible with MFM controllers legacy bork etc.
> 
> Maybe indeed a sound driver problem. Maybe try alsa or vv oss to be
> sure?

I've been using alsa drivers for both devices. I might try the OSS ones 
and see if that makes any difference.

> Don't you have your printer port on irq 7? On most motherboards this is
> hardwired and you cannot use it for anything else (no PCI cards anyway).

I do have a printer port, but I'm not using it. I get some "spurious 
8259A interrupt: IRQ7." messages from the kernel, but I've seen that 
before and was under the impression that it was harmless. I do have the 
kernel module loaded, but it's in polled mode. I just tried loading it 
with io=0x278 and irq=7, but it complained that irq 7 is in use and 
stayed in polled mode. I guess it can't share with the sound drivers. 
Could that be the source of my problem? Maybe I should just tell the 
BIOS to reserve IRQ 7 for ISA devices. I've been using one of the sound 
devices on IRQ 7 for playback for a long time with no problems.

Jonathan Rogers