From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Nugent Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:35:27 +0000 Subject: Re: sound blaster 16 config Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org On Tue Jan 18 2000 at 20:13, Yao Wang wrote: > I am running 2.2.5-22 from RH 6.0 with a sound blaster 16 card with That's all anyone needs to know. Run the sndconfig utility that comes with the system and you can't miss. It'll auto-detect it within a few microseconds, and after hitting return a couple of times to confirm that you can hear the sound samples, it's done. Simple. (It's all documented in the redhat installation/user guides). > 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 It's not the way to do this at all. You might get it working once, then next time you boot it'll be broken again. Besides, "pnpdump -c" will give you output with the relevant lines uncommented. If I *have* to do it at all , this is how I create the pnp config file: pnpdump -c | egrep '^$|^#" | tee /etc/isapnp.conf (You get a line clean file with that command, but without all the masses of comments). The sndconfig utility usually gets things right first time, but recently I did have to redo everything manually after shoving in an old isa 3com card as a 2nd ethernet card and the addition of an internal pnp modem. (All the ISQs needed to be changed around as a result). My recommendation is to make sure you have "pnp operating system yes" in the BIOS, boot into single user mode ("linux single" at the lilo bootprompt), move /etc/isapnp.conf and /etc/conf.modules sideways (isapnp.conf at least), then run sndconfig with the system in that condition (before any other devices or interrupts get allocated that might "interfere" with the kernel's irq allocations. > file, the sound-modules appeared loaded after rebooting. (Why reboot just to get the sound up and going? Geez, this ain't microslop :) The only reason to shut down a linux box is when you wan to change the hardware...) > # lsmod > Module Size Used by > sound 58392 0 (autoclean) (unused) > soundlow 300 0 (autoclean) [sound] > soundcore 2404 3 (autoclean) [sound] > autofs 9188 1 (autoclean) [...] You're missing the sb.o, midi/opl3 and uart401.o modules for a start. The magic for all this needs to go into /etc/conf.modules and would look something like: alias sound sb options -k sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1,5 alias midi opl3 options -k opl3 io=0x388 As I say, sndconfig will do this for you. > 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? Your sound card will sing under linux, no problem. > could someone give me any hint? On a redhat box, sndconfig. > Thanks a lot. Not a problem. Happy listening! :) Cheers Tony