Re: Installing Sound Card
Thanks for the reply Andrei... Unfortunately it is a PNP card and I do not have
windoze on the system to get the port numbers from.
As for my kernel, when I tried to make it, it asked me a ton of questions and
didn't seem to have any defaults in it at all. I ended up specifying the things
I thought I needed, but obviously I didn't know what I was doing... :)
I have played with isapnptools but I got completely confused when I was trying
to edit the DUMP output. I don't want to screw up my system...
Any ideas on how I should proceed?
Thanks,
Doug
Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> > 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]
>
> This value here is the first IO base that you get in Windows/Resources
> window for your sound card. The second IO base value will work for MPU401.
>
> > enter yor IRQ for Sound Blaster IRQ... [5]
>
> Err...be careful here. IRQ5 seems to be a very desired IRQ, and many
> things tend to
> grab it. I know on my machine, in Windows, it was conflicting with NIC,
> and in Lin. I have my PnP modem on irq5. So, make sure first by
> cat /proc/interrupts
> that you don't have an IRQ taken already.
>
> > enter your DMA for Sound Blaster DMA... [1]
> > enter other DMA for Sound Blaster 16 bit DMA... [1]***
>
> Windows tell you the second DMA.
>
> > enter your MPU for MPU401 I/O base... [330]***
>
> Put the second IO range that you get from Windows here.
>
> > 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!
> >
>
> But I'm wondering what you put in that kernel of yours....1.6M?
> Anyway, like Mark pointed out, just click Y for SB support, and such, as
> described up there.
>
> And I hope it's not a PnP card either.
>
> Andrew
>
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