I have RH5.1 with an AWE32pnp and midi working fine. Exactly what problems
are you seeing?
On 28-Aug-98 Neal Sanche wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Kyle Davenport wrote:
>
>> I had awe32 working thru all upgrades of Takahashi Awai's driver on
>> Slackware, then tried Redhat 5.0 on a new system which irrepairably
>> broke
>> it._ I can not forgive Redhat for messing with the linux kernel!_
>> Specifically, they added "modularization" to the sound drivers which
>> broke
>> Takahashi's awe32 driver (It's been awhile, but I tried everything!)_
>> Consensus opinion on the web was the only way to regain your wave table
>> functionality was to pull down an official (unmodified) source tree
>> (specifically the sound tree) and compile your own kernel (with the
>> awe32
>> options turned on)__ An alternative is the commercial OSS (not the free
>> one).
>>
>> I don't know if anything's improved under 5.1._ I doubt it._ I believe
>> Alan
>> Cox was doing the redhat sound modifications if you want to email him._
>> Please post whatever you find out.
>
> No. It's the same with RH5.1, but the modularized sound system have been
> in linux-2.1.x for quite a while now, so you have to live with it
> (assuming 2.2 will be out soon).
>
> I have an AWE32pnp and cant get midi to work, but it works nicely as a
> SB16. I use this script for loading sound modules:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>
> /sbin/modprobe sound
> /sbin/insmod uart401
> /sbin/insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
> /sbin/insmod awe_wave
>
> The last line fails, but the rest works. Maybe it can be fixed with
> isapnptools -- suggestions are welcome.
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