Sound Blaster AWE64 card information

Sound Blaster AWE64 card information

[Greg Borter]

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.

 



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Re: Sound Blaster AWE64 card information

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:21:46 -0500,
Greg Borter wrote:
> 
> 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.

... unless you enabled ISAPNP support in kernel.  Otherwise they
conflict.


Takashi


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