Here's a new track: make sure you have the AWE32 low level sound module
built. Revert dma16 to 5.
Unload all sound modules, then try the following:
modprobe sound
insmod uart401
insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
insmod awe_wave
*NOTE* There seems to be a mini-howto on the SB-AWE, and there are a
couple of SB-32/AWE-32 related documents in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound
ps did the esstype=1688 do anything?
pps try uncommenting options sound dmabuf=1 in your conf.modules
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