Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?
On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 11:28:24AM -0800, Britton wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
> >
> > > How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it
> > > act/function like the SB16?
> >
> > It will act like a SB16 yes, but this is nothing wonderful, as the SB16 is
> > quite pathetic. xmix is the only program I've run into with a line select
> > (which you need since the SB 16 has no input mixer).
>
> And it should act like a AWE-32, because I have the suspicion, that they
> mostly enchanced the software driver, not the hardware. (I wouldn't be
> surprised, if the hardware is nearly the same. I have a AWE32 with the
> 64upgrade, and they say that I have a functionally AWE64, so it is another
> sort of "Winsoundcard")
>
> > What you want is awedrv, which is available as a debian source package.
> > Trouble is, it won't compile as a module, which I think means you have to
> > use initrd to run isapnp before it will work. I've read the initrd stuff,
>
> You HAVE to install it as a module, because isapnp must be started first,
> and then the sound module has to be installed. In fact, isapnp will be
> started automagically by the current initrd scripts, so you have just to
> install it, and add two entrys two the isapnp config file (mail me for more
> info).
I believe I have isapnp.conf set up correctly in /usr/local as I needed to
use it (and a modularized version of the SB 16 driver) to get any sound at
all. However...
When I selected the additional low level drivers option and then the awe
driver option, and compile, I didn't find anything in
/usr/src/linux/modules, where the sound module always showed up before.
Have you actually found this file there? Whould the option for the awedrv
even show up in 'make menuconfig' if there was a problem with the included
patching script? (I assumed it would not, and the script did not report
any problems).
> > but havn't gotten around to trying it yet. Am I right in my understanding
> > that you just need to copy over a rescue disk, isapnp, and possible bash
> > (to write initrc with) into the initrd environment? Anyone done this?
>
> You just have to install and congfigure isapnp, that it is (and add the
> sound module to the modules autoloaded at boot time, if you want. You can
> even load a sound font bank at boot time).
>
> > The awedrv does not support all the SB 64 capabilities, but from what I
> > understand the extra channels are provided by software anyway.
>
> Yup. The Awe driver supports a good part of the AWE32 stuff. AWE64 was never
> intended for other OS than Windows (Creative Labs says, there would be no
> market for Linux, I think the linux community should ignore SB, if they
> ignore us).
>
> Marcus
>
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> Marcus Brinkmann
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