Re: awe 64 gold sound card - help!
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> first, it seems like EVERYTHING is commented out in the dump of pnpdump, so
> i simply added the lines given in step 7c. unfortunately, isapnp didn't
> like them. it complained:
that is normal, pnpdump by default comments everything out.
> Don't know what to do with CONFIGURE CTL0048/58128 (LD 2 on or around line
> 342 /etc/isapnp.conf:342 -- Fatal - Error occurred parsing config file --- no
> action taken
means the file is invalid, your are telling isapnp to look for something
that isn't there.(either wrong device ID or wrong settings ..)
remove the lines you added and go ahead and go line-by-line through
isapnp.conf and uncomment the lines that set the card to your liking, it
can be kind of confusing at first, there are usually multiple sets of
settings, be sure to be very careful and it should work. then re-run
isapnp.
> i can get the soundcard to work using the OSS commercial sound drivers, but
> for some reason, they seem to be incompatible with quake 3, and the kernel
> sound drivers work fine with it (this was when i was using the creative
> PCI-128 sound card).
you may not even need isapnp , when i first got my AWE32 i did not need
isapnp, but for some reason(i think it was to try to force the soundcard
to IRQ7 so it would work in vmware, never was successful) i decided to
run isapnp on it, and ever since it will no longer initialize without
isapnp first. there are options in the kernel config to specify exactly
where the device is located (IRQ/IO/DMA settings) if you set em right it
may work without isapnp.
> is there anyone out there with an awe64/awe32 who got it to work? can
> someone hold my hand through the configuration?
yes i got both my AWE32 and the onboard wavetable to function properly
you can see my isapnp.conf here:
http://portal.aphroland.org/isapnp/isapnp.conf
NOTE! i STRONGLY suggest you do not use that file and instead edit your
own isapnp.conf if your system is different from mine it may cause
serious problems if you try to force the system on the wrong settings.
isapnp.conf files are not portable. even taking the same soundcard from
one machine and putting it in another, with the same config file did not
work for me i had to re-do it. then to load the module i put a script in
the startup that has this:
insmod sb io=0x220 dma=1 dma16=5 irq=5 mpu_io=0x330
i can't be bothered to p[lay with /etc/conf.modules(or whatever its
called) do what u want to get it runnin, thats just what i do. I also
have the following modules to load in /etc/modules: sound, soundlow,
soundcore, uart401, awe_wave (in that order). Also you may want to go
to the kernel config and turn on "Persistant DMA Buffers" in the sound
section to reserve space below 16MB otherwise the system may not have
enough memory below that (ISA needs it for some reason ?) and sound will
stop working after a while. I think you have to say YES to the OSS
Modules option to get this to show up (hitting 'M' won't make it appear)
since its a static kernel option a reboot is required to get it to load.
nate
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