Ok, this is what I did to make my awe64 soundcard work (don't ask me why, it just
did!). hopefully I remember the proper order.
1. sign on as "root"
2. go to drakeconf (logo should be on screen)
3. click on linuxconf from the box that pops up
4. select the second tab "control"
5. select "control panel"
6. select "ISA Plug & Play"
7. see if your sound card is listed there...in my case I hit "accept" and it reloaded
it into the system
8.click off this box, and x off control panel, you should only have DrakeConf on your
screen.
9. look in "hardware configuration" clik on + next to sound card. Highlight the name
of your sound card. it should be listed there.
10. click off Drakeconf ( so you are back at the regular blue screen)
11. clik on the K in the lower left hand corner.
12. choose multimedia
13. choose sound
14. choose soundmixer, when the mixer comes up, it may be a blank box, but it will put
a little speaker on your taskbar.
15.back up to K choose terminals and Gnome terminal.
16 at the prompt type in sndconfig, and this redhat program will pop up. you can move
the prompts with the "tab" key.
first you should hear linus speak
then clik ok
then you should hear a electric piano scale
then clik ok
There may be a slight delay between each of these prompts, as this is coming from the
very bowels of your system.
17. after this program is done. clik x off the box
18 . go back to your soundmixer, and tada! you should see a bunch of volume controls
in it now!
make sure that all of them are turned up at least 50%.
19. clik the box off, making sure that the little speaker stays put on the taskbar.
20. turn off the system to reboot.
toward the end of the shutdown, you may hear a brief bit of music! you should notice
that on the shutdown list SB, and AWe-something are listed! good!
21. when the system reboots, you should see a little green speaker with sb and
awe-something pop up, and there should be a green check mark beside it on the right,
along with the soundcard.
When the Kandulf wizard box comes up you will hear this most wonderful crecendo! (if
everything worked ok)
I can't say if this will work for you....but this did for me. (items above may be
slightly out of order...can anybody help with that). I did this all out of deductive
reasoning, and dumb luck....
anybody else got anything to add to this?
21. reboot the system,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan LaBine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Fwd: Would someone help me get some sound? I promise I'll make a
doc on it.
Which desktop are you running?? I've found that sounds not detected in KDE
work like a charm in Gnome. If that's the case, then you should be able to go
into Control Center (KDE) and set them up. Always recheck the basics when
having sound problems. Usually it'll be something so obvious or simple that
even a rocket scientist will overlook it. Are your speakers plugged into the
right connectors between each other and the PC? Is the power for the speakers
turned on? Volume turned up? Can you play a CD or MP3? Don't just turn off
Plug N Play O/S in your BIOS. Directly below it you should see something that
says "Reset Configuration" or something similar. Enable it so that your
motherboard can re-detect your IRQ's and sort them out a little better. Turn
off any IRQ consuming options that you aren't actually using. USB, Comm
ports, VGA or Video card IRQ's etc. If your sound card wants to use an IRQ
that something else is using, then that's probably the problem. Open up your
PC and take a close look at your Video Card. If it has a set of jumpers that
enable the use of an IRQ for the videocard, then adjusting your BIOS won't
help. Disable it in the Video Card first, then in the BIOS, then "Reset
Configuration Data" again. If ANY of these conditions are causing your
problem, they can also quickly solve it as well. But occasionally, even
fixing them may still mean doing a fresh install. While your at it, check
your existing install to see if "Alsa Player", and "alsa-utils" are
installed. They will probably be a big help. One more thing. Try unloading
all your sound modules from a console. Use "lsmod" to list them, and unload
any modules related to your sound card using "rmmod" and the name of the
module. Then run "sndconfig" while looged in as root. It's best to log out of
your desktop into a console, rather than opening a console while still in
your desktop environment. Hope this helps!
On Saturday 24 February 2001 22:24, you wrote:
> I found two threads in the archives similar to my problem -> I almost got
> some sound to work.
>
> The possibilities I have are VIA onboard sound which is detected in
> HardDrake, YMF724, also detected, and an old ISA stock Sound Blaster 16 not
> detected.
>
> The first two are detected by hard drake, but produce no output when
> running "configuration tool". I disabled onboard sound and put in SB16.
> Even tried allocating irq5/dma1/5 as legacy. I got the SB to produce
> marginal output using sndconfig and setting SB16 up manually. But no sound
> anywhere else. (if it helps, Win2k not 98 makes SB16 work, I can set it to
> any irq and snd still comes out) (I have no docs on SB16 jumpers)
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> I've found hints::
> 1. "Setting BIOS to non-PNP" already was
> 2. rmmod everything sound related, then run sndconfig (tried that, SB16 now
> gives me errors: Device or Resource busy, insmod, failed, insmod
> sound-slot-0 failed) Is this because I didn't "remove everything
> x-related"? I tried "ps-aux" then "kill" one thing, what all do I need to
> remove?
> 3. Recompile Kernel -this seems like awfully complicated process.. I
> don't think my kernel doesn't support sound as other people with 7.2 said
> sound worked after install.
>
> I think I'm close since I heard sndconfig play .wav and midi on sb16. How
> do then make OS use it? Is this because ALSA comes with 7.2 and doesn't
> have SB16 listed in harddrake?
>
> -linatic
>
> I found two threads in the archives similar to my problem -> I almost got
> some sound to work.
>
> The possibilities I have are VIA onboard sound which is detected in
> HardDrake, YMF724, also detected, and an old ISA stock Sound Blaster 16 not
> detected.
>
> The first two are detected by hard drake, but produce no output when
> running "configuration tool". I disabled onboard sound and put in SB16.
> Even tried allocating irq5/dma1/5 as legacy. I got the SB to produce
> marginal output using sndconfig and setting SB16 up manually. But no sound
> anywhere else. (if it helps, Win2k not 98 makes SB16 work, I can set it to
> any irq and snd still comes out) (I have no docs on SB16 jumpers)
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> I've found hints::
> 1. "Setting BIOS to non-PNP" already was
> 2. rmmod everything sound related, then run sndconfig (tried that, SB16 now
> gives me errors: Device or Resource busy, insmod, failed, insmod
> sound-slot-0 failed) Is this because I didn't "remove everything
> x-related"? I tried "ps-aux" then "kill" one thing, what all do I need to
> remove?
> 3. Recompile Kernel -this seems like awfully complicated process.. I
> don't think my kernel doesn't support sound as other people with 7.2 said
> sound worked after install.
>
> I think I'm close since I heard sndconfig play .wav and midi on sb16. How
> do then make OS use it? Is this because ALSA comes with 7.2 and doesn't
> have SB16 listed in harddrake?
>
> -linatic
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
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Dan LaBine
Maximum LAN's Ltd.
Registered Linux User #190712
