Was: AWE32 problems. Now jubilation!
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote: > > > Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure > > > without that package, on previous versions of debian? > > > > > Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to > > > config my kernel for sound no problem. > > > > Even for your PnP board. It sounds strange for me that Debian 1.1 could > > manage > > PnP boards and 1.2 could not. > > > > > Turns out I found out why my board was able to work and I have it "sorta" > working again. My bios has support for pnp and initiates the card before > boot. I remember something about disabling pnp in the bios, is it wrong > to let it config this way? > > M/B is a Gigabyte GA586ATE, with Award bios, if anyone is curious. > > I can play CD's now, but when I try to use /dev/audio via "saytime" it > fails, I saw something in the docs, I'll have to dig it out again. > > > Rich M > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hate to keep following up my own posts, but I feel so damn good I must share my hapiness. Ya! I've got diald up and running, and all my kernel woes are behind me. (Screw pon, I still didn't get it to work) It took a bit, ok a lot of reading, but I finally got things fixed up. I had to remove the modules package, re-compile my kernel a few times, (got bitten by a bad floppy) and then re-write the stock connect script that comes with diald, but it works and I couldn't be happier that I did it myself...:-) Little bit of tuning to do yet, but that is the fun stuff, for me anyways. For my pnp sound card, I got the config it uses in win95, then made sure that those options were in my .config file in /usr/src/linuxbefore I did my make dep, make clean, make zdisk, make modules, make modules_install. Reboot and lo and bohold my /dev/audio works now. I can play squake to alleviate my frustrations now... Have to read more about the Debian way to do kernels when I have more time. For now, this works great. Thanks for being patient with me folks... Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AWE32 problems.
> > Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure > > without that package, on previous versions of debian? > > > Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to > > config my kernel for sound no problem. > > Even for your PnP board. It sounds strange for me that Debian 1.1 could manage > PnP boards and 1.2 could not. > Turns out I found out why my board was able to work and I have it "sorta" working again. My bios has support for pnp and initiates the card before boot. I remember something about disabling pnp in the bios, is it wrong to let it config this way? M/B is a Gigabyte GA586ATE, with Award bios, if anyone is curious. I can play CD's now, but when I try to use /dev/audio via "saytime" it fails, I saw something in the docs, I'll have to dig it out again. Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AWE32 problems.
Richard Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 20:29:34 +1000 > > From: Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, > > Dark Lord of Sith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: AWE32 problems. > > > > Dark Lord of Sith wrote: > > > > > > I just can't get the AWE32 sound card to work under debian. It > > > works fine under dos,95, or NT. I've installed all the patches and tried > > > running it with kernel 2.0.27, 2.0.29, and 2.1.26 with no success. I use > > > the I/O ,IRQ and DMA values out of the manual which match the ones in > > > 95. The card is plug and play. If anyone know of the setting that work > > > or have any ideas please let me know. Thanks! > > > IRQ: 5 DMA: 1 and 5 > > > > It is possibly becuase your sound card is PnP and you need the PnP > > patch or download the isapnptools from sunsite.unc.edu > > > > lawrence > > > > > > isapnptools is available as a .deb package. > > Haven't tried it yet, but it is installed. > > Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure > without that package, on previous versions of debian? Yes. I do not like this approach but it is possible. It may also be helpful if you are setting the kernel parameters for the sound first and you would like to attack the PnP mess later: 1) If you configure your PnP board in autoexec.bat / config.sys in DOS, just boot into DOS first. 2) If not, You should boot into win95 in order it configure your PnP board. Anycase, note the IRQs, DMAs that were attributed to your board. 3) Boot to linux now. Either use loadlin, or just use a worm boot (no reset botton, no power botton) like Ctr-Alt-Del. > I'm havin a heck of > a time getting sound support compiled into my kernel, and now I think it > is because its a pnp card. You are probably right. > Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to > config my kernel for sound no problem. Even for your PnP board. It sounds strange for me that Debian 1.1 could manage PnP boards and 1.2 could not. > ahh I'm just havin' a bad > week, first pon, now my sound... I feel better now... Note: Last time I did such configurations, it was done over a RedHat installation and I did not start to compile the kernel in my fresh debian installation. I could even start to play some music in linux, hit ctr-alt-del, go to dos, and the music was not interrupt. I could also do the reverse. I was using some patches for the kernel. I will try isapnptools next time in debian. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil Received: (qmail 28000 invoked by uid 888); 4 Mar 1997 22:42:50 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 27998 invoked by uid 888); 4 Mar 1997 22:42:50 - Delivered-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Received: (qmail 27996 invoked from network); 4 Mar 1997 22:42:50 - Received: from golem.pixar.com (138.72.27.59) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 4 Mar 1997 22:42:49 - Received: by golem.pixar.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0w22m4-00IdTlC; Tue, 4 Mar 97 14:33 PST Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 97 14:33 PST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian Management Re-Organization Reply-To: Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Debian management is being re-organized. I have added two offices: Daniel Quinlan is Senior Vice President Brian C. White is Vice President of Engineering Administrative matters of the Debian project are delegated to Dan, and engineering decisions are delegated to Brian. Between them they have authority for all day-to-day operations of the project. I will retain the office of President, and I will concentrate on Debian's relationship with other entities and on some large policy planning issues. After a long time in the Debian management, the pressure of the ever-growing project became too much for me. There are also a number of projects that I've put off for too long, and would like to have at least a little time to work on them. Thus, the delegation. These two new positions are currently pro-tempore, but I have no reason to doubt that the board will make them official for a full one year term once the board votes on its own constitution. Thanks Bruce Perens -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3
Re: AWE32 problems.
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 20:29:34 +1000 > From: Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, > Dark Lord of Sith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: AWE32 problems. > > Dark Lord of Sith wrote: > > > > I just can't get the AWE32 sound card to work under debian. It > > works fine under dos,95, or NT. I've installed all the patches and tried > > running it with kernel 2.0.27, 2.0.29, and 2.1.26 with no success. I use > > the I/O ,IRQ and DMA values out of the manual which match the ones in > > 95. The card is plug and play. If anyone know of the setting that work > > or have any ideas please let me know. Thanks! > > IRQ: 5 DMA: 1 and 5 > > It is possibly becuase your sound card is PnP and you need the PnP > patch or download the isapnptools from sunsite.unc.edu > > lawrence > > isapnptools is available as a .deb package. Haven't tried it yet, but it is installed. Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure without that package, on previous versions of debian? I'm havin a heck of a time getting sound support compiled into my kernel, and now I think it is because its a pnp card. Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to config my kernel for sound no problem. ahh I'm just havin' a bad week, first pon, now my sound... I feel better now... As someone mentioned before config problems are _not_ fun. Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AWE32 problems.
Dark Lord of Sith wrote: > > I just can't get the AWE32 sound card to work under debian. It > works fine under dos,95, or NT. I've installed all the patches and tried > running it with kernel 2.0.27, 2.0.29, and 2.1.26 with no success. I use > the I/O ,IRQ and DMA values out of the manual which match the ones in > 95. The card is plug and play. If anyone know of the setting that work > or have any ideas please let me know. Thanks! > IRQ: 5 DMA: 1 and 5 It is possibly becuase your sound card is PnP and you need the PnP patch or download the isapnptools from sunsite.unc.edu lawrence
AWE32 problems.
I just can't get the AWE32 sound card to work under debian. It works fine under dos,95, or NT. I've installed all the patches and tried running it with kernel 2.0.27, 2.0.29, and 2.1.26 with no success. I use the I/O ,IRQ and DMA values out of the manual which match the ones in 95. The card is plug and play. If anyone know of the setting that work or have any ideas please let me know. Thanks! IRQ: 5 DMA: 1 and 5
