On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 11:28:24AM -0800, Britton wrote: > > > > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it > > > act/function like the SB16? > > > > It will act like a SB16 yes, but this is nothing wonderful, as the SB16 is > > quite pathetic. xmix is the only program I've run into with a line select > > (which you need since the SB 16 has no input mixer). > > And it should act like a AWE-32, because I have the suspicion, that they > mostly enchanced the software driver, not the hardware. (I wouldn't be > surprised, if the hardware is nearly the same. I have a AWE32 with the > 64upgrade, and they say that I have a functionally AWE64, so it is another > sort of "Winsoundcard") > > > What you want is awedrv, which is available as a debian source package. > > Trouble is, it won't compile as a module, which I think means you have to > > use initrd to run isapnp before it will work. I've read the initrd stuff, > > You HAVE to install it as a module, because isapnp must be started first, > and then the sound module has to be installed. In fact, isapnp will be > started automagically by the current initrd scripts, so you have just to > install it, and add two entrys two the isapnp config file (mail me for more > info).
I believe I have isapnp.conf set up correctly in /usr/local as I needed to use it (and a modularized version of the SB 16 driver) to get any sound at all. However... When I selected the additional low level drivers option and then the awe driver option, and compile, I didn't find anything in /usr/src/linux/modules, where the sound module always showed up before. Have you actually found this file there? Whould the option for the awedrv even show up in 'make menuconfig' if there was a problem with the included patching script? (I assumed it would not, and the script did not report any problems). > > but havn't gotten around to trying it yet. Am I right in my understanding > > that you just need to copy over a rescue disk, isapnp, and possible bash > > (to write initrc with) into the initrd environment? Anyone done this? > > You just have to install and congfigure isapnp, that it is (and add the > sound module to the modules autoloaded at boot time, if you want. You can > even load a sound font bank at boot time). > > > The awedrv does not support all the SB 64 capabilities, but from what I > > understand the extra channels are provided by software anyway. > > Yup. The Awe driver supports a good part of the AWE32 stuff. AWE64 was never > intended for other OS than Windows (Creative Labs says, there would be no > market for Linux, I think the linux community should ignore SB, if they > ignore us). > > Marcus > > -- > "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." > Marcus Brinkmann > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
