I've just got myself one of these SB PCI64 beasts.
After many years of using ess (yech) and sb16 cards, this is a
completely different animal!
Ok, so I'm very new to wavetables, soundfont files and suchlike. I
have no *.sf2 or *.sbk files to use (well, none that I know of). So
where do I get the gear I need to set up some good "presets"?
I have so many questions, most of them very probably FAQs.
Can someone point me in a direction where I can find some information
to start to get a handle on how to configure and use this beast?
[I've seen the man sfx* man pages, and had a quick look through the
es1370.c source file.]
Background info:
I'm using it in a box running RedHat 5.1/5.2 (it does not and never
has had a windoze partition on it, and hopefully never will:)
% cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Dec 29
13:11:13 EST 1998
I've got the very latest RH sndconfig utilities:
% rpm -q sndconfig awesfx sox isapnptools
sndconfig-0.29-6
awesfx-0.4.2-3
sox-11g-7
isapnptools-1.17-0.1
The sndconfig utility correctly identified that card, and the sound
worked. So now, running "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sound start" the soundcore
and es1370 modules get loaded. Quake 1 & 2 work just great, full
sound with no breakup (finally!) But using "play" (ala "sox") results
in ugly static-like noises.
cat'ing /dev/sndstat doesn't work.... not until I manually load the
"sound" module. (Weird).
% lsmod
Module Pages Used by
es1370 6 1
sound 15 0
soundlow 1 [sound] 0
soundcore 1 [es1370 sound] 7
nls_iso8859_1 1 1 (autoclean)
isofs 5 1 (autoclean)
3c59x 5 2 (autoclean)
Once I do that, I get:
% cat /dev/sndstat
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux tashi.sci.usq.edu.au 2.0.36 #1 Tue Dec 29 13:11:13 EST 1998 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Card config:
Audio devices:
Synth devices:
Midi devices:
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
Also very weird. According to this, the card isn't working at all :)
When attempting to use a midi player or using the sfx* programs
(sfxload, sfxtest), I get:
open /dev/sequencer: Device not configured
Huh?
Many thanks for any help.
Cheers
Tony
