Thanks for the reply. Is there a way to get the card setting without going to windows... My system doesn't have windows on it at all. I installed linux directly onto it. Its kind of MS free... As much as I could make it.
Doug Mark Wagnon wrote: > Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking for someone who would help walk me through the process of > > installing > > my sound card on my 2.0.33 kernel system. I have read the howto's and such > > and > > I am totally confused! My attempt to generate a kernel resulted in a 1.6MB > > monstrosity that is to big to run... I have been playing with this on and > > off > > for 4 months... > > > > My system is a P166 64MB system running the current debian release. The > > sound > > card os a SoundPro "Soundblaster/PRO compatible card" that has absolutely no > > marking on it. The chip it uses is a SoundPro HT1869V+ (F30446) 9729. > > I'm pretty much totally ignorant as far as setting up sound is > concerned, but here is what I did. Your mileage may vary. > > The first thing you need to do is to find out all the info you can on > your sound card: IRQ, I/O addresses, DMA. You can get this info from > within win9X, buy going into the control panel, clicking on system, then > clicking on your sound card, or something to that effect. Sorry, but I > haven't used windows in a while :) > > Now I got a list similar (with less detail) off of another mailing list. > I was lucky because the guy had the same card I have (SB AWE 64), and my > setting were the same. I don't know what all the specs are. I'll > indicate where I'm clueless with an '***', and I'll give you the values > I entered in brackets []. > > Next get into the /usr/src/linux dir and type make xconfig. > Then do each of these: > click on Sound > click y for Sound card support > click y for Sound Blaster (SB, SBPro, SB16, clones) support > scroll down a little ways > click y for /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support > click y for MIDI interface support > click y for FM systhesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support > enter your I/O base address for I/O base for SB... [I entered 220] > enter yor IRQ for Sound Blaster IRQ... [5] > enter your DMA for Sound Blaster DMA... [1] > enter other DMA for Sound Blaster 16 bit DMA... [1]*** > enter your MPU for MPU401 I/O base... [330]*** > enter -1 for SB MPU401 IRQ... [-1]*** > scroll all the way down (leaving all other entries alone) > enter 65536 for your Audio DMA buffer size > that's it! > Save, exit, and recompile and you should be golden! > > I hope this isn't too confusing :) > > -- > __ _ > Mark Wagnon -o) / / (_)__ __ ____ __ > Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
