Desperately Seeking *#$^@^@% AWE64 Help :)

Desperately Seeking *#$^@^@% AWE64 Help :)

[CaT]

Well I've read every document I can find on installing the AWE64.

I've gone to the awedrv website.

I've spent close to 20hrs on #linux asking for help, getting it and
trying to get the SOB working.

I tried the OSS drivers with 2.0.35.

I've installed 2.1.121 to try to get it working.

I told it I would wish cancer on it if it didn't start to work.

I contemplating sacraficing a goat...

And yet still the damned thing doesn't work and so now I'm going
for what is my avenue of last resort. This list. Did I miss something
important? Am I just a clueless git? (DON'T answer that. :) Is reality
against me? Help.

My config as it stands (more or less. I'll spam with more detail if
requested)

In the kernel compile all options are set as module. Sound, old fm stuff
(typing this from memory), oss dirvers and the lowlevel driver.

pnp configured by changing the dump of pnpdump and uncommenting the right
lines plus adding 2 for the wavetable stuff. isapnp is seemingly happy and
gives me a single line responce with a bunch of hex numbers and so on.

modprobe sound seems to work. it doesn't whine but neither does it produce
any output.

insmod iso406 (I think that's the right number. again, doing it from
memory) barfs, pukes and generally paints the screen technicolour with
error msgs about not being able to find internal labels. ie it finds
it but when it tries to deal with it it cannot figure out where to point
stuff.

same with sb and the others (as stated in the HOWTO on AWE32 in the
kernel distrib. I think. I've read so many I'm losing count).

I know there's not much info here but if someone expresses interest
in helping out I'll go to the hassle of getting whatever data is req
when I get home tonight.

Thanks muchly.

-- 
CaT (cat@zip.net.au)                       URL: http://www.zip.com.au/dev/null

    There was farting in the air that night,
        It lit so bright,
            Fernando...

Re: Desperately Seeking *#$^@^@% AWE64 Help :)

[Jaakko Niemi]

>> pnp configured by changing the dump of pnpdump and uncommenting the right
>> lines plus adding 2 for the wavetable stuff. isapnp is seemingly happy and
>> gives me a single line responce with a bunch of hex numbers and so on.

 Ok, lets check couple of things.. 

 Isapnp outputs something like this:

Board 1 has Identity 7f 0c 86 2c bd 9e 00 8c 0e:  CTL009e Serial No
210119869 [checksum 7f]

 ? 

 What do cat /dev/sndstat , cat /proc/interrupts etc. show after this ?

 I need to put the following in /etc/conf.modules to get things going:

alias char-major-14 sb
alias sound sb
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330

>> modprobe sound seems to work. it doesn't whine but neither does it produce
>> any output.

 Try cat /dev/sndstat after that.

	--j

Re: Desperately Seeking *#$^@^@% AWE64 Help :)

[Bryan Scaringe]

Sorry, can't help with your problem, but...

There has recently ben some VERY interesting discussion
about getting the AWE64 working under linux
on the linux-sound mailing list.

linux-sound, like this list, can be found
at vger.rutgers.edu

Good luck...

Bryan



> Well I've read every document I can find on installing the AWE64.
> 
> I've gone to the awedrv website.
> 
> I've spent close to 20hrs on #linux asking for help, getting it and
> trying to get the SOB working.
> 
> I tried the OSS drivers with 2.0.35.
> 
> I've installed 2.1.121 to try to get it working.
> 
> I told it I would wish cancer on it if it didn't start to work.
> 
> I contemplating sacraficing a goat...
> 
> And yet still the damned thing doesn't work and so now I'm going
> for what is my avenue of last resort. This list. Did I miss something
> important? Am I just a clueless git? (DON'T answer that. :) Is reality
> against me? Help.
> 
> My config as it stands (more or less. I'll spam with more detail if
> requested)
> 
> In the kernel compile all options are set as module. Sound, old fm stuff
> (typing this from memory), oss dirvers and the lowlevel driver.
> 
> pnp configured by changing the dump of pnpdump and uncommenting the right
> lines plus adding 2 for the wavetable stuff. isapnp is seemingly happy and
> gives me a single line responce with a bunch of hex numbers and so on.
> 
> modprobe sound seems to work. it doesn't whine but neither does it produce
> any output.
> 
> insmod iso406 (I think that's the right number. again, doing it from
> memory) barfs, pukes and generally paints the screen technicolour with
> error msgs about not being able to find internal labels. ie it finds
> it but when it tries to deal with it it cannot figure out where to point
> stuff.
> 
> same with sb and the others (as stated in the HOWTO on AWE32 in the
> kernel distrib. I think. I've read so many I'm losing count).
> 
> I know there's not much info here but if someone expresses interest
> in helping out I'll go to the hassle of getting whatever data is req
> when I get home tonight.
> 
> Thanks muchly.
> 
> -- 
> CaT (cat@zip.net.au)                       URL: http://www.zip.com.au/dev/null
> 
>     There was farting in the air that night,
>         It lit so bright,
>             Fernando...
> 
>