instalation of soundcard

[Andreas Fromm <afromm@email.com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to get my SoundBlaster AWE 64 (Isa PnP) to work on a new
installed Potato system, but just can't get it. I think I did everything
I read in the Sound-AWE mini-HOWTO and Kernel-source documentation.

My isapnp.conf file look as follows:

    (READPORT 0x0273)
    (ISOLATE PRESERVE)
    (IDENTIFY *)
    (VERBOSITY 2)
    (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING

    (CONFIGURE CTL00e4/269124680 (LD 0
    #     ANSI string -->Audio<--

     (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
     (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
     (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
     (IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220))
     (IO 1 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330))
     (IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388))
     (NAME "CTL00e4/269124680[0]{Audio               }")
     (ACT Y)
    ))

    (CONFIGURE CTL00e4/269124680 (LD 1
    #     Compatible device id PNPb02f
    #     ANSI string -->Game<--
     (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0200))
     (NAME "CTL00e4/269124680[1]{Game                }")
     (ACT Y)
    ))

    (CONFIGURE CTL00e4/269124680 (LD 2
    #     ANSI string -->WaveTable<--
     (IO 0 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0620))
     (IO 1 (BASE 0x0A20))
     (IO 2 (BASE 0x0E20))
     (NAME "CTL00e4/269124680[2]{WaveTable           }")
     (ACT Y)
    ))

    (WAITFORKEY)

and executing
    isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
reports:

    Board 1 has Identity da 10 0a 84 48 e4 00 8c 0e:  CTL00e4 Serial No
269124680 [checksum da]
    CTL00e4/269124680[0]{Audio               }: Ports 0x220 0x330 0x388;
IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5 --- Enabled OK
    CTL00e4/269124680[1]{Game                }: Port 0x200; --- Enabled
OK
    CTL00e4/269124680[2]{WaveTable           }: Ports 0x620 0xA20 0xE20;
--- Enabled OK


I compiled the Kernel with the following extract of the configuration
save-file:

    # Sound
    CONFIG_SOUND=m
    CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
    CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
    CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m

    # Additional low level sound drivers
    CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y
    CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=m

which compiled the modules:
    adlib_card.o
    sound.o
    soundlow.o
    opl3.o
    sb.o
    soundcore.o
    uart401.o

I also added the lines

    alias midi awe_wave
    post-install awe_wave /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/synthfm.sbk
    options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330

to the /etc/modules.conf file, but executing:

    modprobe -a sound

doesn't  install the drivers. At least they are not reportet executing
    cat /dev/sndstat


Any help would be apreciated, and please cc my any answers

Andreas Fromm
afromm@email.com

P.D:Sorry for my english ;-)