Re: Aztech 16-bit in SB mode??

[robbie@scot-mur.demon.co.uk]

Hi

I think I may have the same card. (or similar) The sb emulation is only 8
bits. almost all cards which emulate sb only work in 8 bits. You need to
use the mss. Try using the sgalaxy driver, it works great for me. I use :

modprobe sgalaxy io=0x530 irq=7 sgbase=0x220 dma=1 dma2=0

Look at your autoexec.bat file, it will probably set galaxy= something.

On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 08:31:52PM -0800, lokesh setia wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a Aztech 16-bit sound card which reports to be SB16 compatible.
> (In DOS that is, all games etc. use the SB 16  settings after the Aztech 
> sound driver is loaded.).
> I have a Redhat 5.0 with kernel 2.0.32, and i tried using sndconfig.
> The card is not detected at io=0x220 (irq test fails at all irqs).
> Then I came to know of LOADliN , i boot into dos, initialize the sound
> driver, use loadlin to go into linux.
> and voila, sndconfig does report my sound card and also plays the sample 
> file correctly.
> 
> Now my problem is that my sound card is *probably* working in 8-bit 
> mode. (the ioctl SNDCTL_DSPP_SAMPLESIZE returns the value 8 in the 
> argument size, always).
> I also tried using a software like vplay (distributed inside sndkit, by 
> Hannu Salovien) but it says the following:
> 
> Unable to set 16-bit sample size, playing 8-bit.
> 
> If my card is detected correctly as SB16, then why does it play only 
> 8-bit?? Any Clues???
> 
> Lokesh
> 
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Robbie Murray