I have two SMP boxen, a dual P166 on a Tyan Tomcat III MB, and a dual
PII-333 on a Tyan Tiger II. Both have ISA AWE64 cards, and I have never
had any trouble of note with sound.
I compile sound into the kernel (no modules) and simply set the IRQ from
the default 7 (which IMHO is wrong, I've never seen a SB come up as 7) to
5. Works great!
To use the AWE32 device, however, you have to fiddle with isapnpconfig and
use modules inserted after the machine boots. If you're willing to
sacrifice AWE MIDI, though (I've never had a use for it) you can compile
SB16 support right in without using modules.
Let me know if I can tell you anything in more detail.
Matt Briggs
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On 24 Oct 1998, David Maslen wrote:
> I had a lot of trouble with this myself. I assume it's a pnp isa
> AWE64. You can compile the sound into the kernel, using the default
> interrupts from the card. I can't remember why, but I think I needed to
> make it modular on my smp kernel?
>
> If you compile as a module then use isa pnp to configure the card, and
> then install the sound modules via another script.
>
> One last bit of advice. Turn off all your integrated peripherals that
> you aren't using, serial ports, second ide controller etc. Get the card
> going with isapnp and then switch them back on in the bios one by one.
>
> As I said, I had a tough time doing this, but it did work eventually,
> and that was probably 20 kernels ago.
>
> If you do decide to compile into the kernel, the only change I needed
> to make was to change the irq from 7 to 5 in the config. All the other
> default setting were correct.
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