[techtalk] sound.... still

[Eric Baudais]

Sarah-

About a month ago I was like you, pulling my hair out trying to get a
SB-64AWE card to work.  This is how I did it.

You should have made the modules in the kernel for sound support
(sound.o), sb compatible support (sb.o) and a low-level AWE driver
(awe_wave.o).

If you have an ISA card you need to use isapnp to configure the io ports
and IRQs.  Provided you have all that information here is what I did.

$insmod sound
$insmod uart401
$insmod sb io=0x220 irq=9 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
$insmod awe_wave

I haven't experimented with FM synthesis yet, but this is what got me ISA
card working.

Good Luck,
Eric Baudais

On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Sarah Hollings wrote:

> After much frigging about with my system, and I mean ***a very very
> large amount of frigging*** I still cannot get sound working on this
> machine.
> 
> The crux of it seems to be that sound is all there, but I just can't
> tell the modconf program what the parameters are to make it sodding well
> work.  
> 
> I constantly get the error from modconf:
> 
> "/lib/modules/2.2.14/sound.o: invalid parameter io"
> 
> There's a great howto with all this fab stuff about recompiling your
> kernel.  But I have already (with the generous help of a guy from a
> local UG) gone thru that and all I want to do is get the sodding modules
> to go!!!!!
> 
> http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE-3.html
> 
> 3am - had enough.
> 
> 
> 
> Sarah