Re: sound blaster 16 config

[Peter Leif Rasmussen <plr@cedara.com>]

Yao Wang wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I am running 2.2.5-22 from RH 6.0 with a sound blaster 16 card with
> base_addr=0x220, IRQ=5, 8-bit DMA=1 and 16-bit DMA=5 (uncommenting
> a few lines in the pnpdump output. After running isapnp on this config
> file, the sound-modules appeared loaded after rebooting.
> # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> sound                  58392   0  (autoclean) (unused)
You can see that the 'sound' module is stated as not being used and you also
have not loaded the 'sb' module. Doesn't RH6.0 have a sound configuration
utility so you don't have to directly deal with editing the pnpdump output?

> soundlow                 300   0  (autoclean) [sound]
> soundcore               2404   3  (autoclean) [sound]
> autofs                  9188   1  (autoclean)
> nfs                    30072  14  (autoclean)
> nfsd                  151576   8  (autoclean)
> lockd                  31208   1  (autoclean) [nfs nfsd]
> sunrpc                 52420   1  (autoclean) [nfs nfsd lockd]
> via-rhine               9024   1  (autoclean)
> nls_iso8859-1           2020   1  (autoclean)
> nls_cp437               3548   1  (autoclean)
> vfat                   11420   1  (autoclean)
> fat                    25344   1  (autoclean) [vfat]
> 
> # cat /proc/devices
> Character devices:
>   1 mem
>   2 pty
>   3 ttyp
>   4 ttyS
>   5 cua
>   7 vcs
>  10 misc
>  14 sound
>  21 sg
>  29 fb
>  36 netlink
> 128 ptm
> 136 pts
> 
> Block devices:
>   1 ramdisk
>   2 fd
>   3 ide0
>   8 sd
>   9 md
>  11 sr
>  22 ide1
> 
> But:
> #cat /dev/sndstat
> OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
> Load type: Driver loaded as a module
> Kernel: Linux lion 2.2.5-22 #3 Thu Jan 13 17:50:55 EST
> 2000 i686
> Config options: 0
> 
> Installed drivers:
You see, there is no driver installed.

> 
> Card config:
> 
> Audio devices:
> 
> Synth devices:
> 
> Midi devices:
> 
> Timers:
> 0: System clock
> 
> Mixers:
With a SB16 card I usually get an audio, synth and mixer device and you
have none.

> 
> I could not play music to it and was wondering about some info on
> sound config with 2.2.x (sound + soundcore + soundlow)? Am i running
> something new on an rather old hardware?
No, but you must also load the 'sb' module.

> 
> more info:
> # isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> Board 1 has Identity e5 ff ff ff ff 70 00 8c 0e:  CTL0070 Serial No -1
> [checksum e5]
> 
> could someone give me any hint?
> 
> Thanks a lot.
If you are into kernel compiling I found that since using linux-2.3.25
my SB16 card runs and installs a lot smoother because of the PNP support
directly in the kernel. I always found /etc/isapnp.conf a pain to deal
with.

Peter
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