To make your soundblaster card work, you must compile your kernel with sound support. You need to know your base address (e.g. 220), your low and high DMA channels (e.g. 1,5), your IRQ (e.g. 7), and possibly your MIDI channel (e.g. 330).
Run the config program of your choice: Either use the debian package files (I don't do this), or do a 'make config' in /usr/src/linux and answer yes for sound support. Answer all the questions and compile a kernel image. Hopefully your sound card will work. For just playing CD's, you don't necessarily need to do all this if your CDROM is already recognized. In that case, the program 'workbone' will play CD's for you. One problem may be the default volume level of your sound card. I recommend that you do compile a kernel for your card, and then get some kind of sound mixer program to allow you to adjust the various settings. Hope this helps a bit. Syrus. ---------------------------------------------------------- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept. On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Pedro Quaresma wrote: > Hi > == > > I already look at FAQ but I didn't find anything usefull about > Linux and SoundBlaster. > > What I want: To listen to music while I am working. > > what I did: In the installation procedure I choose the modules > for the cdrom and for soundblaster. > > What I should do: ??? <- that it is the question I put to you > all. > > Many thanks in advance. > > -- > At\'e breve > =========== > > Pedro Quaresma de Almeida > Departamento de Matem\'atica > Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia > Universidade de Coimbra > P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
