Re: Installing Sound Card
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for someone who would help walk me through the process of installing
> my sound card on my 2.0.33 kernel system. I have read the howto's and such and
> I am totally confused! My attempt to generate a kernel resulted in a 1.6MB
> monstrosity that is to big to run... I have been playing with this on and off
> for 4 months...
>
> My system is a P166 64MB system running the current debian release. The sound
> card os a SoundPro "Soundblaster/PRO compatible card" that has absolutely no
> marking on it. The chip it uses is a SoundPro HT1869V+ (F30446) 9729.
I'm pretty much totally ignorant as far as setting up sound is
concerned, but here is what I did. Your mileage may vary.
The first thing you need to do is to find out all the info you can on
your sound card: IRQ, I/O addresses, DMA. You can get this info from
within win9X, buy going into the control panel, clicking on system, then
clicking on your sound card, or something to that effect. Sorry, but I
haven't used windows in a while :)
Now I got a list similar (with less detail) off of another mailing list.
I was lucky because the guy had the same card I have (SB AWE 64), and my
setting were the same. I don't know what all the specs are. I'll
indicate where I'm clueless with an '***', and I'll give you the values
I entered in brackets [].
Next get into the /usr/src/linux dir and type make xconfig.
Then do each of these:
click on Sound
click y for Sound card support
click y for Sound Blaster (SB, SBPro, SB16, clones) support
scroll down a little ways
click y for /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support
click y for MIDI interface support
click y for FM systhesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support
enter your I/O base address for I/O base for SB... [I entered 220]
enter yor IRQ for Sound Blaster IRQ... [5]
enter your DMA for Sound Blaster DMA... [1]
enter other DMA for Sound Blaster 16 bit DMA... [1]***
enter your MPU for MPU401 I/O base... [330]***
enter -1 for SB MPU401 IRQ... [-1]***
scroll all the way down (leaving all other entries alone)
enter 65536 for your Audio DMA buffer size
that's it!
Save, exit, and recompile and you should be golden!
I hope this isn't too confusing :)
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