On Tuesday 07 August 2001 02:05, Doug X wrote:
> Hello,
> Thank you for the speedy response.
> To answer your Q's:
> the scsi card is a pci.
> I had just tried the sndconfig as root this afternoon and then got the
> 24 mins of audio before I wrote for help.
>
> Bios:
> PNP NO
> Pci VGA palett snoop yes
> offboard pci ide card auto
> assign irq to pci vga card no
> pci slot 1,2,3,4 priority auto
> dma 0,1,3,5,6,7 pnp
> irq 3,4,5,7,10,11,14,15 pci/pnp
> irq 9 isa/eisa
>
> isa bus clock 7.159MHz other choices pciclk/4 or pciclk/3
>
> harddrake said sb card has
> I/O 210
> IRQ 5
> DMA8 0
> DMA16/2 0
> OPL3I/O 388
>
> AWE Wavetable unknown, device id is CTL0022
>
> Thank you
> fearless1
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:41:00 -0400
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster AWE64 locks kernel
>
>
> I have the same sound card (well the "gold" version, but i think the
> difference is windows drivers bells and whissels) and i never have had a
> problem after running sndconfig, as root, from a text console, with the
> execption that I have to set a mixer vol. since the default is too low
> to hear anything.
> Are we sure there is not a DMA or IRQ problem (conflict) and (in BIOS)
> set plug and pray aware OS to "NO" or "OFF"? what slot do you have the
> card in? is the sccsi card a pci, ISA, or onboard?
>
> On Monday 06 August 2001 19:08, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Monday 06 August 2001 23:35, Doug X wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > As stated, I have a CL SB AWE 64 ISAPNP, 128MB, P1 200MHz, Scsi,
> > > LGburner IDE, CD IDE, 10GB Maxtor, 2GB Fujitsu, 4MB ATI PCI. My
> > > problem is that through all versions of RH5.0 and Mandrake 6.0 - 8.0
> > > playing sound usually mp3 or anything from the hard drive freezes
> > > the kernel hard, only a physical reset is available(no keyboard).
> > > This has always been within 30 secs until MD 8.0. Under MD 8.0 the
> > > sound was configured so that it works for about 24 mins when I just
> > > tried it today then it froze again.
> > >
> > > I don't understand how it works for so long and then freezes
> > > everything? Does anyone else have this particular problem?
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > What other sound card would be a good one to buy for guaranteed
> > > linux support and good analogue recording(ie. record from cassettes
> > > and lp's)?
> >
> > I have a SB AWE 64 PnP 32MB and don't have any problems. Have you
> > tried running sndconfig as root?
>
Try this in your /etc/modules.conf file and reboot ...
# AWE64 stuff
alias sound-slot-0 sb
alias sound-slot-1 off
alias sound-service-1-0 off
alias sound-service-1-3 off
alias midi awe_wave
alias synth0 awe_wave
options sound dmabuf=1
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
--
Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.
Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ).
Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586,
kernel 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pnr, XFree86 4.0.3, patch level 11mdk,
KDE: 2.1.2, Qt: 2.3.1. Uptime 2 days 7 hours 57 minutes
