Folks,
the AWE32pnp works fine under RH5.0 and 5.1. I use it myself. It does not
work out of the box on RH5.0, because the original kernel shipped did not
have the updated sound drivers.
Make sure that you
a) have the 2.0.35 kernel update from Redhat, or run a current 2.1 kernel.
b) edit you isapnp.conf and add the extra I/O ports for the AWE32 otherwise
it won't work.
I expect (b) is a problem for a number of people. As succinctly as I can, I'll
explain why this is necessary. The ISA PnP spec is pretty clever and allows
the card to encode the resources it needs and the allowable ranges for these
resources. Due to one of the poor original IBM PC design choices, ancient
PC-XT ISA cards only decoded 10 of the 16 I/O port address bits. This has
meant that although no such cards have been produced in probably a decade,
it is still "unsafe" to use about 3/4 of the address range (stuff that aliases
0-0xff is safe 'cos the motherboard gets it right). Creative were "clever"
and used addresses that aliased the good old SB I/O port i.e. SB port == 0x220,
AWE32 uses 0x620, *AND* 0xa20 and 0xe20. There is no way to encode the
two "extra" ports because this is a trick, so pnpdump will only show 0x620
as the port for the AWE32. Adding
(IO 1 0xa20)
(IO 2 0xe20)
to your isapnp.conf will fix this and allow the card to work.
If anybody still have problems getting an AWE32/64 pnp card to work with RHL,
let me know and I'll try to help you.
Regards,
t
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