On 28-Aug-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 28 Aug, Brian Morgan wrote: >> Running debian 2.0 / 2.0.34 (stable) and having trouble getting my sound >> card to work. I can get the cd rom player in X to run, but not through >> the sound card. I didn't see anything in the device drivers setup when >> I installed debian, and wasn't sure how else to get it to work. It's a >> creative labs soundblaster awe64e. I installed all the sound files in >> the debian setup (using the easy to use custom menu for setting up: >> WORKS GREAT!!!), but it still isn't working. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Brian Morgan >> BTW, nice job to all you developers out there who made vast improvements >> to the debian 2.0 setup. So much easier now than in the frozen >> version! I installed everything I needed right from the start >> (including x, samba, and mucho other packages . . .no problem!) Look >> out NT! >> > > You'll need to patch the kernel source and compile a custom kernel; > fortunately, this is a) not hard, and b) well documented in the Sound > Blaster AWE HOWTO, by our very own Marcus Brinkmann and c) there are > Debian packages for everything you'll need. > > /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE.gz > > (or search Yahoo for "Sound Blaster AWE HOWTO" - the first 22 matches > are to copies of the HOWTO) > > This HOWTO made the difference for me - I needed to replace my sound > card, as the old one bumps into my SIMM slots. The options were yank > half of my RAM (which I had just bought) or replace the sound card, so I > went shopping, and Marcus' excellent HOWTO was the deciding factor in my > getting a SoundBlaster 64 AWE. Read the HOWTO, follow it, and yell for > help if you get stuck. > > HTH, > -- > Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux > Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College
it's half true, sb awe64 need this patch to use advance midi part of the sb. you can set your card without this patch (like i did) with isapnp (config file created by pnpdump) and u need to select the sb16 driver in the sound section but in module, not built in. in this way, isapnp will be call before loading the sb driver. so if u read the howto on sb16 or sbawe64, u should find infos on the isapnp and kernel config. Benoit Joly
