Re: Soundblaster AWE 64 installation and stuff
Hi All. Just wanted to say that I've finally got my AWE 64 working, say thanks to
those who helped me out and document how I got it working.
The first thing was that I had my BIOS set to PnP OS installed (dumb I know, now I
wonder how it worked on RedHat?) so once I fixed that I could play waves, but no
midis and the mixer didn't work. This is the important part: with isapnptools 1.23
pnpdump only detected the first of the IO ports for the wavetable section so I had to
add the other 2 (not that uncommon from what I've read), but the hex addresses can't
have capital letters in them or it doesn't work. I don't know why this is, but
perhaps the maintainer should look into this because I have read alot of complaints
about this problem. My isapnp.conf wavetable section now looks like:
(CONFIGURE CTL00e4/186086730 (LD 2
# ANSI string -->WaveTable<--
# Multiple choice time, choose one only !
# Start dependent functions: priority preferred
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0620
# Maximum IO base address 0x0620
# IO base alignment 1 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 4
(IO 0 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0620))
(IO 1 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0a20))
(IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0e20))
# Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0620
# Maximum IO base address 0x0680
# IO base alignment 32 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 4
# (IO 0 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0620))
# End dependent functions
# Vendor defined tag: 75 01 69 46 35 55
(NAME "CTL00e4/186086730[2]{WaveTable }")
(ACT Y)
))
# End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK)
Also if you're playing midis you have to use the -e option on AWE cards for some
reason-> %playmidi -e mymid.mid
Hopefully this can be useful to someone. Thanks again to everyone who helped me.
-Jeff
Cliff Rice wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:18:28AM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff, I have the same card you do. IIRC, I read somewhere that
> one needs the softoss modules with the 2.2.17 kernel.
> >
>
> <snippage >
> #
> # Sound
> #
> CONFIG_SOUND=m
> # CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI is not set
> # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set
> # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set
> # CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO is not set
> # CONFIG_SOUND_ESSSOLO1 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_AD1816 is not set
> # CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1 is not set
> CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS=m
> 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
> # CONFIG_AEDSP16 is not set
>
> and for good measure , my modules.dep file (sound modules only )
>
> /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/softoss2.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.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
>
> I use the following script to build my kernels, (I'm not sure if this
> is really relevent to the "modules.conf more recent than the .dep file",
> but here goes (I'm always mucking with kernels (: ) so I automated it.
> #!/bin/bash
> cd /usr/src
> make-kpkg clean
> make-kpkg -revision custom.1.0 kernel_image
> mv /lib/modules/2.2.17 /lib/modules/2.2.17.save
> dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.2.17_custom.1.0_i386.deb
>
> Good luck and hope this helps
>
> --
> Cliff
>
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