Soundblaster AWE 64 installation and stuff
First of all, please excuse if I seem frustrated, I'm at the pulling my
hair out stage! ;) I installed Potato and then upgraded everything (I
think) to Woody. I have been using RH for the last year before this
adventure started. I'm having a lot of trouble getting my sound card to
work. It is an ISA Soundblaster AWE 64 PnP. I tried to use my familiar
redhat tools and got sndconfig. This worked like a charm on redhat, but
no luck on Debian. I think I'm having trouble with my modules, but I
don't know what. When I boot up I get the message:
modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than
/lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep
I'm not sure what that means, I've read about other people who seemed to
fix it by doing a depmod -a, but that did nothing for me. I also tried
touching it, but that did nothing either. isapnp seemingly runs without
warnings, but when I try to insmod sb I get:
Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
In my /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep I have:
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/adlib_card.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o
\
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/opl3.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/awe_wave.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/opl3.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o \
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/uart401.o \
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundcore.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o:
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundlow.o \
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundcore.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundcore.o:
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundlow.o:
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/uart401.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o
In my /etc/modules.conf I have: (all this was put there by sndconfig,
but it looks right to me and I know the options being passed to sb are
right because those are the same I had on my last install)
alias sound-slot-0 sb
options sound dmabuf=1
options opl3 io=0x388
alias midi awe_wave
post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
My /usr/src/linux/.config sound sections looks like:
#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_CS4281 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_FUSION is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ICH is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_PAS is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_GUS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_PSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAD16 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_WAVEFRONT is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAUI is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SGALAXY is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_NM256 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_YMPCI is not set
#
# Additional low level sound drivers
#
CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y
# CONFIG_ACI_MIXER is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_MSP3400 is not set
CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=m
I have probably gone overboard with the file info here, but I'm out of
ideas. Hoping someone has some. Does anyone actually have a SB AWE 64
ISA PnP card running under Potato or Woody? Thanks a lot. -Jeff
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