Re: Installing Sound Card
Thanks for the reply. Is there a way to get the card setting without going to
windows... My system doesn't have windows on it at all. I installed linux directly
onto it. Its kind of MS free... As much as I could make it.
Doug
Mark Wagnon wrote:
> 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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