[ale] Debian sound part II

[byron at cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:54:28PM -0500, Jay Loden wrote:
> ok, I posted earlier about having sound issues on my laptop, Well, I tried 
> some things mentioned here, and suddenly, sound returned sort of out of 
> nowhere.  Today, I restarted, and it was gone...again. 
> 
> I am at my total wits end, when i try to start artsd, I get: 

I have an answer for you: interrupt conflict.

I had the same problem. It turns out that the sound card and the parallel
port were sharing interrupt 7. When I disabled the parallel port in the
BIOS, the sound worked fine thereafter.

BAJ