Re: SB AWE32 & RH 6.0, MIDI not working!

[James Thomas <jthomas_44303@yahoo.com>]

I believe that you may be hearing the FM synthesizer
and not the wavetable on the AWE card.  I believe that
the OSS/Free drivers do NOT support the wavetable on
the AWE cards so you have to use FM synthesis to play
MIDI.  I know that if you purchase the OSS driver for
the AWE cards with the EMU8000 (wavetable) extension
from the makers of the OSS drivers (4front-tech) that
the wavetable will be fully supported and you won't
need isapnptools for your sound card at all.  Nor will
you need sound support compiled into your kernel.

--- Ricardo Peres <rjperes@student.dei.uc.pt> wrote:
> Yep, thanks, I had already found!
> By the way, my MIDI sound is not very good... Using
> Windows I can choose
> between 2 (or 3...) MIDI devices, and AWE Synth
> gives much better sound.
> How do I do this with Linux?
> 
> Thanks, again!
> 
>
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> Ricardo Peres
> E-mail: rjperes@student.dei.uc.pt
> ICQ UIN: 708926
> TM: 0931 9459192
> Departamento de Engenharia Informática
> Universidade de Coimbra
> PORTUGAL
>
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> 
> On Mon, 17 May 1999, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > Ricardo Peres (rjperes@student.dei.uc.pt) said: 
> > > alias sbawe awe_wave
> > > options -k awe_wave io=0x620
> > 
> > Actually, you don't need to specify an io port
> here for the awe module.
> > 
> > Add after this line in your isapnp.conf file:
> > >  (IO 0 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0620))
> > (IO 1 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0A20))
> > (IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0E20))
> > 
> > Then re-run isapnp and try to load the module -
> does that
> > help?
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> 
> 

=Jaimie Thomas <jthomas_44303@yahoo.com>

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