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by **Eman** » Sat, 24 Apr 1999 04:00:00

Hi I have an ISA pnp sbAWE64 and I just doesnt want to work. I got all the
resource settings from windoze and it didnt want to take it in sndconfig. I
installed OSS which actually works but its shareware and its MONO
sound..which sucks too. Will a kernel upgrade resolve these issues? Im
currently running 2.0.36
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I SO MUCH want to make the
conversion to Linux from win95 but these bindups are really discouraging and
nerveracking. My wife is gonna leave me from spending so much time every
night after work trying to set it up! :)

by **dpc** » Sat, 24 Apr 1999 04:00:00

heh heh - yea, Linux seems to take a bit of my time as well! In any case, I
found the solution to my AWE64 problems when I read some of the
documentation in /usr/src/Linux/documentation/sound (there might be
capitilization errors in that). There's some good documentation in there
that if you follow explicitly, you should be able to get your sound set up.
Although I think that the AWE64 will work with kernel 2.0.36, I think that
it would be a good idea to upgrade the kernel as I believe there is better
sound support in later versions. If you need help upgrading the kernel,
RedHat has some good documentation on its site: Upgrading to the 2.2.x
Kernel -
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/kernel-2.2/kernel2.2-upgrade.html
If you're not running RedHat, ignore the section about Packages you'll need.
What you should focus on there is the section 5.2 about Compiling the 2.2.
kernel.

Good luck, I hope you get your sound working!!

dpc

p.s. To get my sound started, I still have to type "modprobe sb" after I
login, but that could easily be set up so I don't have to do that.

Quote:> Hi I have an ISA pnp sbAWE64 and I just doesnt want to work. I got all
the
> resource settings from windoze and it didnt want to take it in sndconfig.
I
> installed OSS which actually works but its shareware and its MONO
> sound..which sucks too. Will a kernel upgrade resolve these issues? Im
> currently running 2.0.36
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I SO MUCH want to make the
> conversion to Linux from win95 but these bindups are really discouraging
and
> nerveracking. My wife is gonna leave me from spending so much time every
> night after work trying to set it up! :)

by **Chris J. Miln** » Mon, 26 Apr 1999 04:00:00

the kernel version you're running is fine. in order to get the card to
work you've got to get the PNP settings working. this isn't really
sndconfig, it's the isapnptools stuff. there's a HOWTO for this as well.
check /etc/isapnp.conf first, make sure this file is present & that the
setting it contains are the same as the ones you've been using in
windows (there's a section on possible problems in the AWE HOWTO, it
generally doesn't get all the wavetable IO stuff). sndconfig will try &
create an isapnp.conf file for you but it's not really good at it yet.

once the card is responding to isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf & telling you
everything is hunkydory then worry about the sound stuff (Sound-HOWTO,
or AWE HOWTO, the latter is only necessary if you'd like to get the
wavetable working, the SB stuff will function quite nicely without
worrying about the wavetable, the joystick port or the IDE controller
parts of isapnp.conf).

good luck,

chris

> Hi I have an ISA pnp sbAWE64 and I just doesnt want to work. I got all the
> resource settings from windoze and it didnt want to take it in sndconfig. I
> installed OSS which actually works but its shareware and its MONO
> sound..which sucks too. Will a kernel upgrade resolve these issues? Im
> currently running 2.0.36
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I SO MUCH want to make the
> conversion to Linux from win95 but these bindups are really discouraging and
> nerveracking. My wife is gonna leave me from spending so much time every
> night after work trying to set it up! :)

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