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by **Mark Watkin** » Thu, 25 Apr 1996 04:00:00

I have recently purchased a P166 Gateway w/ a couple of 1+gig harddrives
with Win95 load on them and a Ensoniq Soundscape card. I have loaded
Linux ver 1.2.13 and download various 1.3.XX kernels. Linux works
great, I have my CDROM working fine, my display and all that but, don't
have a sound card working yet. I have tried upto version 1.3.83 and
can't get it work. I used the numbers for the hardware out of Win95 in
make config, but no luck.

When the machine boots is says:
Initializing sound card.
Sound card initilized ok. (or something)

However, no /dev/dsp is getting created.

Any Ideas?

Doug Miller

by **Chris Joh** » Fri, 26 Apr 1996 04:00:00

: I have recently purchased a P166 Gateway w/ a couple of 1+gig harddrives
: with Win95 load on them and a Ensoniq Soundscape card. I have loaded
: Linux ver 1.2.13 and download various 1.3.XX kernels. Linux works
: great, I have my CDROM working fine, my display and all that but, don't
: have a sound card working yet. I have tried upto version 1.3.83 and
: can't get it work. I used the numbers for the hardware out of Win95 in
: make config, but no luck.

: When the machine boots is says:
: Initializing sound card.
: Sound card initilized ok. (or something)

: However, no /dev/dsp is getting created.

: Any Ideas?

: Doug Miller

Doug,

You might like to take a look at http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/voxware
where Hannu Savolainen maintains a current status for UNIX Sound System
(the sound driver code used by Linux).

I assume you have a Plug-n-Play (PnP) card, as I do (I have a Gateway
with Ensoniq Soundscape PnP). If so, it's not currently supported
by Linux. I don't know how long it'll be until there's a driver for it,
but it seems to depend on general PnP support in Linux, which, according
to Hannu, seems targeted for Linux 2.1.x, whenever that will be.
Apparently, the only real difference between the non-PnP and the PnP
cards is in the initialization, which is kind of crucial.

So, meanwhile, we'll just have to keep silent (or Linux will, anyway). :-(

Regards,

by **Tim Segal** » Sat, 27 Apr 1996 04:00:00

> : I have recently purchased a P166 Gateway w/ a couple of 1+gig harddrives
> : with Win95 load on them and a Ensoniq Soundscape card. I have loaded
> : Linux ver 1.2.13 and download various 1.3.XX kernels. Linux works
> : great, I have my CDROM working fine, my display and all that but, don't
> : have a sound card working yet. I have tried upto version 1.3.83 and
> : can't get it work. I used the numbers for the hardware out of Win95 in
> : make config, but no luck.

> : When the machine boots is says:
> : Initializing sound card.
> : Sound card initilized ok. (or something)

> : However, no /dev/dsp is getting created.

If you don't have /dev/dsp do you have the other device files? If not you
need to run the shell script at the bottom of Readme.linux in the drivers/sound
directory. BTW with the Ensoniq Soundscape /dev/dsp must be linked to /dev/dsp1
and NOT to /dev/dsp0 as it is for all the other sound cards.

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> : Any Ideas?

> : Doug Miller

> Doug,

> You might like to take a look at http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/voxware
> where Hannu Savolainen maintains a current status for UNIX Sound System
> (the sound driver code used by Linux).

> I assume you have a Plug-n-Play (PnP) card, as I do (I have a Gateway
> with Ensoniq Soundscape PnP). If so, it's not currently supported
> by Linux. I don't know how long it'll be until there's a driver for it,
> but it seems to depend on general PnP support in Linux, which, according
> to Hannu, seems targeted for Linux 2.1.x, whenever that will be.
> Apparently, the only real difference between the non-PnP and the PnP
> cards is in the initialization, which is kind of crucial.

> So, meanwhile, we'll just have to keep silent (or Linux will, anyway). :-(

I have a NON PnP Ensoniq Soundscape (also courtesy of Gateway) which works
beautifully. However to address your issue, I would have thought it should
be possible to boot into Windows and then run loadlin to warm-boot Linux.
This is what a number of folks are doing with their PnP cards. Obviously
this solution only works if you have a Windows partition.

Regards,

> Regards,

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by **Paul Kell** » Fri, 03 May 1996 04:00:00

> I have recently purchased a P166 Gateway w/ a couple of 1+gig harddrives
> with Win95 load on them and a Ensoniq Soundscape card. I have loaded
> Linux ver 1.2.13 and download various 1.3.XX kernels. Linux works
> great, I have my CDROM working fine, my display and all that but, don't
> have a sound card working yet.

I'm in the same boat. The Ensoniq is a fine card but you probably won't
get 16-bit sound out of it under Linux for a while yet. The only way to
make it work at all is to boot into DOS first, initialise the card with
ICU (Intel's PnP for DOS hack), then boot into Linux. That will get you
perfect MIDI sound and 8-bit mono 22KHz SoundBlaster PCM. Configure your
kernel for these rather than SoundScape.

Quote:> However, no /dev/dsp is getting created.

The special file /dev/dsp should always be there anyway whether it works
or not. The way to check what's working sound wise is to cat /dev/sndstat.

Paul.

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