SB16

SB16

[hcchin]

Hi all,

    I am still having problems with configuring my SB16 sound card. 
    I am using Slakware with kernal 2.0.30. I compile the kernal with 

    Sound ? M
    support for /dev/dsp and /dev/audio ? Y

    Other I put N. I use the isapnptools_1.17 to configure, I read the 
manual, readme, and HOW-TO, tring a few times. Still unable to setup my 
sound card. 

    (One thing good with Windows'95, the driver is really easy to 
install, linux must improve with these)

    Nottingham said that my dirver(Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630) is the old 
one, will this old one work with SB16? Or how could I get the new sound 
driver? 

    The below that show on my Linux:-

% isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf

Board 1 has Identity d7 00 00 15 f5 24 00 8c 0e:  CTL0024 Serial No 5621 
[checksum d7]
CTL0024/5621[0]{Audio               }: Ports 0x220 0x330 0x388; IRQ5 DMA1 
DMA5 --- Enabled OK

% insmod sound
(I did check sound module was not loaded before this)

% lsmod 

Module:        #pages:  Used by:
sound             10		0
ppp                5		0
slip               2		0
slhc               2	[ppp slip]	0
lp                 2		0

BUT
% cat /dev/sndstat

Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Tue Mar 2 05:22:12 SGT 1999 root,

Config options: 0

Installed drivers: 

Card config: 

Audio devices:

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:

Mixers:

So I can't use the device, what is going wrong?

Re: SB16

[Itai Nahshon]

>Hi all,
>
>    I am still having problems with configuring my SB16 sound card. 
>    I am using Slakware with kernal 2.0.30. I compile the kernal with 
>
>    Sound ? M
>    support for /dev/dsp and /dev/audio ? Y
>
>    Other I put N.

You must also enable Sound Blaster support!

While you do that I suggest that you also enable
the sequencer part and be able to play MIDI files.

Consider upgrading to a more recent kernel (2.2.x).

Itai

Re: SB16

[LuftHans]

On Thu, 13 May 1999 hcchin@strd.csam.com.my wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>     I am still having problems with configuring my SB16 sound card. 
>     I am using Slakware with kernal 2.0.30. I compile the kernal with 
> 
>     Sound ? M
>     support for /dev/dsp and /dev/audio ? Y
> 
>     Other I put N. I use the isapnptools_1.17 to configure, I read the 
> manual, readme, and HOW-TO, tring a few times. Still unable to setup my 
> sound card. 
> 
>     (One thing good with Windows'95, the driver is really easy to 
> install, linux must improve with these)
> 
>     Nottingham said that my dirver(Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630) is the old 
> one, will this old one work with SB16? Or how could I get the new sound 
> driver? 
> 
>     The below that show on my Linux:-
> 
> % isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> 
> Board 1 has Identity d7 00 00 15 f5 24 00 8c 0e:  CTL0024 Serial No 5621 
> [checksum d7]
> CTL0024/5621[0]{Audio               }: Ports 0x220 0x330 0x388; IRQ5 DMA1 
> DMA5 --- Enabled OK

I had bios probs with this part. Usually it would tell me the device wasn't
available or some such. I moved to a different irq and the probs went away.

options sb io=0x220 irq=9 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330

Nothing else was at 5, but I couldn't use it for sound.

ciao,

der.hans

> % insmod sound
> (I did check sound module was not loaded before this)
> 
> % lsmod 
> 
> Module:        #pages:  Used by:
> sound             10		0
> ppp                5		0
> slip               2		0
> slhc               2	[ppp slip]	0
> lp                 2		0
> 
> BUT
> % cat /dev/sndstat
> 
> Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Tue Mar 2 05:22:12 SGT 1999 root,
> 
> Config options: 0
> 
> Installed drivers: 
> 
> Card config: 
> 
> Audio devices:
> 
> Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
> 
> Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
> 
> Timers:
> 
> Mixers:
> 
> So I can't use the device, what is going wrong?
> 
> 

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Re: SB16

[Michele Bini]

On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 11:48:20AM +0800, hcchin@strd.csam.com.my wrote:
>     (One thing good with Windows'95, the driver is really easy to 
> install, linux must improve with these)

Then you could have choosen a more user-friendly distribution
than Slackware.

The ALSA project has also improved the simplicity of configuration
(including isapnp autoconfiguration).

-Michele