From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Borter Subject: Sound Blaster AWE64 card information Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:21:46 -0500 Message-ID: <4410FEDA.3050606@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Recently I needed to get a Sound Blaster AWE64 working with my Debian based SimplyMEPIS 3.4.3 Linux system. Most of the installation instructions on the web will only get the sound section working. After a bit of digging I was able to piece together the extra steps that are needed to get the on-board synthesizer working. Because my card is an ISA card I needed to use isapnptools to setup the card. Isapnptools doesn't properly detect all the needed addresses. Two addresses had to be manually added to the isapnp.conf file. I also had to manually add the snd-sbawe, snd-pcm-oss, snd-mixer-oss, snd-seq-oss, snd-seq-midi and snd-emu8000-synth modules to the etc/modules file. The last step was to use asfxload to load the sound fonts. Once this was done, I am now able to use the on-board EMU8000 synthesizer with various music programs, like Kmid, Note Edit, Rosegarden 4, etc. If you would like, I can do a more detailed write up. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642