On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:55:44AM +0000, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > > Just a thought, but is it an Awe64 Value? If so, the ram is only 512k. I > seem to > remember somewhere in the distant past something about the Awe driver > sometimes not > getting the ram size right. > > This part you uncommented - > > #define AWE_DEFAULT_BASE_ADDR 0x620 /* base port address */ > #define AWE_DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE 4096 /* kbytes */ > > Try replacing the 4096 with 512? > > Unless you are sure you have 4096k..... otherwise, I'd suggest trying the > latest kernel > (2.2.13), or at least a newer one that comes with 0.4.3 Awe drivers built-in. > > Probably not related, your isapnp.conf settings look OK but I had to put a > line > (VERIFYLD N) > above the readport part at the top. > > ***Ah, having read your dmesg output (properly, this time!), I think I can > see what the > problem is. You've compiled the AWE driver straight in to the kernel. For > an isapnp > card, you have to do ALL of the sound stuff as modules - including the > low-level one and > the Awe driver. Then run modconf to load them, passing the correct > parameters to each > (only sb and opl3 modules need parameters). > > Tacking on the Awe driver to the 2.0.whatever kernel that comes with Debian > is not ideal, > get the latest kernel and use it. > > Jonathan. > > > --
Thanks for the help. I went and looked at the potato dist. It has the raplayer and such as well. I need those as well. So..... I'm downloading the dist at present and will install it where I used to have Redhat. (Being new, don't want to mess up what passes for a functional system. ) Hopefully potato isn't as bad as the warnings in the README's and posts indicate. :) Cliff -- Cliff
