Re: Sound Blaster AWE32 and Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold
On Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 07:49:16PM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> Will Lowe <lowe@cis.udel.edu> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 01:10:03PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
> > > > If you have a pnp bios, it's handled before linux even boots.
> > > > Otherwise, you'll need to use the isapnptools package.
> > >
> > > Hmm, nearly correct. I experienced with pnp bios and SB32pnp, that only
> > > some sound works. Midi etc. needs isapnptools anyway. :-(
> >
> > Hmm ... I have a SB16 and midi works fine without isapnptools, maybe
> > that's the difference.
>
> You probably have a waveblaster extension mounted to i/o 330 using the
> MPU 401 interface. The SB 32 has a build-in (non MPU 401 compatible)
> Emu8000 waveblaster that need to be initialized to work correctly.
>
> I tried pnp extension for the kernel too and the whole sound card
> stoped working. Now I have the normal kernel with the awe patches
> installed and use isapnp to initialize all devices on the sound card.
Thanks for the explanation. I have the same configuration as you now. Works
fine. I hope the kernel will handle pnp correctly soon (would be a big plus
for linux, wouldn't it?)
> BTW: The normal SB 16 compatible sound works without any special
> initilization, only the midi part needs extra handling to work
> correctly.
>
> Torsten
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