Greetings: I bought, from a linux systems distributor, a SoundBlaster AWE64 soundcard. I cannot get it to work. I use Linux Mandrake 5.3 (RedHat 5.2). I ran sndconfig but it failed to set up sound (although my card is listed in the soundcard list). I tried again and sndconfig would just freeze, forcing me to have to kill kvt. This happened a number of times. dmesg gives me ------ Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: dsp reset failed. AWE32: not detected ------ My old RedHat 5.0 Installation guide says that the AWE64 only works in SB-16 mode. Isthis related to the [sound] problem? I tried sndconfig --noprobe (this option somehow does not cause sndconfig to freeze). Based on info in the second and smaller SB booklet that came with the soundcard, I changed the settings as follows: I/O PORT IRQ DMA 1 DMA 2 MPU I/O x 0x220 [5] 0 0 [0x330] x 0x240 7 [1] 1 0x300 x 0x260 9 3 3 x 0x280 10 [5] x But it still does not work! I checked my Win95 partition and the sound card is indeed installed on irq5 (where it works just fine). I checked /proc/interrupts: /proc]# more interrupts 0: 45539 timer 1: 282 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 3: 1988 + serial 8: 1 + rtc 13: 0 math error 14: 63529 + ide0 15: 0 + ide1 Any advice is greatly appreciated Thank you in advance Idris
