Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:58:10 +0100 Michele Bini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you detect your card using pnpdump? No, it wasn't detected by pnpdump. I actually worked it out eventually. I basically made a dos boot disk with a ramdisk on it using OpenDOS (did a 'format /s' from an OpenDOS image under dosemu) and installed it from there. I then used the diagnose program to set it up. All seems to work fine. Now, if only I could find a spare pair of spaekers... :) damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, Dead
Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 05:28:28AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Hi folks, This one has got me beat, and I'm hoping someone in debian-land might be able to help me out. I got a vibra 16 card (soundblaster) from a friend, but it didn't come with any driver disks or anything like that. Unfortunately it is a jumperless card, and I have no way of setting the IRQs and DMAs under linux (or even finding out what they are) so I can set it up to run under Linux. Can you detect your card using pnpdump? eg. # pnpdump|grep ANSI ANSI string --Creative SB AWE64 PnP-- ANSI string --Audio-- ANSI string --Game-- ANSI string --WaveTable-- If your card is soundblaster compatible, you should be able to use it using the standard sb module (from recent 2.1.* kernels). If your card is not pnp you can try using the 'default' IRQ and DMA settings: irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 -Michele
Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux
There is a secondary/tertiary problem: the CD I got with my vibra16 won't install in strict dos, but requires win3x to install. The second problem is that the vibra16 configuration is dependent on two drivers: firstly the config.sys device driver CTCM, then the autoexec.bat driver CTCU. Then you have to run diagnose--I don't play with dosemu too much; I usually deal with a dual-boot system, so I can't tell you how to get dosemu to run through all of the drivers in one fell swoop, just how dos treats it on bootup. The factory defaults are 0x220 i/o port, 0x300 MPU emulator i/o port, IRQ 10, DMA 1, and secondary DMA 5 if you wanna configure other cards around it. HTH On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Damon Muller wrote: On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:39:54 -0600 (EST) Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What type of BIOS do you have? my PCI PnP bios auto-configured the card and I used win98 to find out the irq and dma. There is a package called isapnptools that has similar functions. Get it, read the docs, ask the list if you need more help. This card isn't actually a PnP card, and is not seen by pnpdump. It's a jumperless card, so it doesn't have it's resources dictated by the OS, but by a configuration program. I'd perfer not to mess up my delicatly balanced windoze system by adding another card, then taking it out and hoping it keeps the same resources. damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, Dead -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux
Hi folks, This one has got me beat, and I'm hoping someone in debian-land might be able to help me out. I got a vibra 16 card (soundblaster) from a friend, but it didn't come with any driver disks or anything like that. Unfortunately it is a jumperless card, and I have no way of setting the IRQs and DMAs under linux (or even finding out what they are) so I can set it up to run under Linux. I went to the creative web site and downloaded the dos/win31 drivers, thinking this would solve my problem. Not so! It refuses to install the dos configuration programs under win98 dos... My linux box only has linux on it, so I can't just boot it to dos, and the install program doesn't like working under DOSEmu. So, at the moment, I seem to be a little stuck. I'm thinking maybe if I can get hold of the program to set up the board under DOS, I can boot linux with a dos boot disk, and set it up from there. The zip from creative contains it, but it's compressed, and only the install program can uninstall it. If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Any suggestions are more than welcome. thanks, damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:2920281 a sense of irony disguised as one. PGP Key ID: 0x232C09E1 - Bruce Sterling
Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux
On 7 Jan, Damon Muller wrote: Hi folks, This one has got me beat, and I'm hoping someone in debian-land might be able to help me out. I got a vibra 16 card (soundblaster) from a friend, but it didn't come with any driver disks or anything like that. Unfortunately it is a jumperless card, and I have no way of setting the IRQs and DMAs under linux (or even finding out what they are) so I can set it up to run under Linux. I went to the creative web site and downloaded the dos/win31 drivers, thinking this would solve my problem. Not so! It refuses to install the dos configuration programs under win98 dos... My linux box only has linux on it, so I can't just boot it to dos, and the install program doesn't like working under DOSEmu. So, at the moment, I seem to be a little stuck. I'm thinking maybe if I can get hold of the program to set up the board under DOS, I can boot linux with a dos boot disk, and set it up from there. The zip from creative contains it, but it's compressed, and only the install program can uninstall it. If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Any suggestions are more than welcome. thanks, damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:2920281 a sense of irony disguised as one. PGP Key ID: 0x232C09E1 - Bruce Sterling -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null What type of BIOS do you have? my PCI PnP bios auto-configured the card and I used win98 to find out the irq and dma. There is a package called isapnptools that has similar functions. Get it, read the docs, ask the list if you need more help. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:39:54 -0600 (EST) Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What type of BIOS do you have? my PCI PnP bios auto-configured the card and I used win98 to find out the irq and dma. There is a package called isapnptools that has similar functions. Get it, read the docs, ask the list if you need more help. This card isn't actually a PnP card, and is not seen by pnpdump. It's a jumperless card, so it doesn't have it's resources dictated by the OS, but by a configuration program. I'd perfer not to mess up my delicatly balanced windoze system by adding another card, then taking it out and hoping it keeps the same resources. damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, Dead
SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux
If this is an isa card, then use the isapnp package to set up the card. See the sound how_to. --- From: Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi folks, This one has got me beat, and I'm hoping someone in debian-land might be able to help me out. I got a vibra 16 card (soundblaster) from a friend, but it didn't come with any driver disks or anything like that. Unfortunately it is a jumperless card, and I have no way of setting the IRQs and DMAs under linux (or even finding out what they are) so I can set it up to run under Linux. I went to the creative web site and downloaded the dos/win31 drivers, thinking this would solve my problem. Not so! It refuses to install the dos configuration programs under win98 dos... My linux box only has linux on it, so I can't just boot it to dos, and the install program doesn't like working under DOSEmu. So, at the moment, I seem to be a little stuck. I'm thinking maybe if I can get hold of the program to set up the board under DOS, I can boot linux with a dos boot disk, and set it up from there. The zip from creative contains it, but it's compressed, and only the install program can uninstall it. If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Any suggestions are more than welcome. thanks, damon _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux
This card isn't actually a PnP card, and is not seen by pnpdump. It's a jumperless card, so it doesn't have it's resources dictated by the OS, but by a configuration program. I'd perfer not to mess up my delicatly balanced windoze system by adding another card, then taking it out and hoping it keeps the same resources. Have you considered booting off a floppy or just booting into safe mode? I used to do this all the time to configure NE2000's and 3COM EtherLink III's for use under NT (which can't configure them either). -Jon Burchmore
