Re: AWE32 problems.

1997-03-05 Thread Richard Morin



  Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure
  without that package, on previous versions of debian?
 
   Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to
  config my kernel for sound no problem.
 
 Even for your PnP board. It sounds strange for me that Debian 1.1 could manage
 PnP boards and 1.2 could not.
 


Turns out I found out why my board was able to work and I have it sorta
working again.  My bios has support for pnp and initiates the card before
boot.  I remember something about disabling pnp in the bios, is it wrong
to let it config this way?

M/B is a Gigabyte GA586ATE, with Award bios, if anyone is curious.

I can play CD's now, but when I try to use /dev/audio via saytime it
fails, I saw something in the docs, I'll have to dig it out again.


Rich M
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Was: AWE32 problems. Now jubilation!

1997-03-05 Thread Richard Morin


On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
 
   Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure
   without that package, on previous versions of debian?
  
Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to
   config my kernel for sound no problem.
  
  Even for your PnP board. It sounds strange for me that Debian 1.1 could 
  manage
  PnP boards and 1.2 could not.
  
 
 
 Turns out I found out why my board was able to work and I have it sorta
 working again.  My bios has support for pnp and initiates the card before
 boot.  I remember something about disabling pnp in the bios, is it wrong
 to let it config this way?
 
 M/B is a Gigabyte GA586ATE, with Award bios, if anyone is curious.
 
 I can play CD's now, but when I try to use /dev/audio via saytime it
 fails, I saw something in the docs, I'll have to dig it out again.
 
 
 Rich M
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 
Hate to keep following up my own posts, but I feel so damn good I must
share my hapiness.
Ya! I've got diald up and running, and all my kernel woes are
behind me. (Screw pon, I still didn't get it to work) It took a bit, ok a
lot of reading, but I finally got things
fixed up.  I had to remove the modules package, re-compile my kernel a
few times, (got bitten by a bad floppy) and then re-write the
stock connect script that comes with diald, but it works and I couldn't
be happier that I did it myself...:-) Little bit of tuning to do yet, but
that is the fun stuff, for me anyways.

For my pnp sound card, I got the config it uses in win95, then made sure
that those options were in my .config file in /usr/src/linuxbefore I
did my make dep, make clean, make zdisk, make modules, make
modules_install.  Reboot and lo and bohold my /dev/audio works now.  I can
play squake to alleviate my frustrations now...
Have to read more about the Debian way to do kernels when I have more
time.  For now, this works great.

Thanks for being patient with me folks...

Rich M
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Re: AWE32 problems.

1997-03-04 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
 
  Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 20:29:34 +1000
  From: Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: debian-user@lists.debian.org,
  Dark Lord of Sith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: AWE32 problems.
  
  Dark Lord of Sith wrote:
   
   I just can't get the AWE32 sound card to work under debian.  It
   works fine under dos,95, or NT.  I've installed all the patches and tried
   running it with kernel 2.0.27, 2.0.29, and 2.1.26 with no success.  I use
   the I/O ,IRQ and DMA values out of the manual which match the ones in
   95.  The card is plug and play.  If anyone know of the setting that work
   or have any ideas please let me know.  Thanks!
   IRQ: 5  DMA: 1 and 5
  
  It is possibly becuase your sound card is PnP and you need the PnP
  patch or download the isapnptools from sunsite.unc.edu
  
  lawrence
  
  
 
 isapnptools is available as a .deb package.
 
 Haven't tried it yet, but it is installed.
 
 Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure
 without that package, on previous versions of debian?

Yes. I do not like this approach but it is possible. It may also be helpful if 
you
are setting the kernel parameters for the sound first and you would like to
attack the PnP mess later:

1) If you configure your PnP board in autoexec.bat / config.sys in DOS, just
   boot into DOS first.

2) If not, You should boot into win95 in order it configure your PnP board.

Anycase, note the IRQs, DMAs that were attributed to your board.

3) Boot to linux now. Either use loadlin, or just use a worm boot (no reset
   botton, no power botton) like Ctr-Alt-Del. 

  I'm havin a heck of
 a time getting sound support compiled into my kernel, and now I think it
 is because its a pnp card.

You are probably right.

  Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to
 config my kernel for sound no problem.

Even for your PnP board. It sounds strange for me that Debian 1.1 could manage
PnP boards and 1.2 could not.

  ahh I'm just havin' a bad
 week, first pon, now my sound...virtual scream I feel better now...

Note: Last time I did such configurations, it was done over a RedHat
installation and I did not start to compile the kernel in my fresh debian
installation. I could even start to play some music in linux, hit ctr-alt-del,
go to dos, and the music was not interrupt. I could also do the reverse.
I was using some patches for the kernel. I will try isapnptools next time in
debian. 

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Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil

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AWE32 problems.

1997-03-03 Thread Dark Lord of Sith
I just can't get the AWE32 sound card to work under debian.  It 
works fine under dos,95, or NT.  I've installed all the patches and tried 
running it with kernel 2.0.27, 2.0.29, and 2.1.26 with no success.  I use 
the I/O ,IRQ and DMA values out of the manual which match the ones in 
95.  The card is plug and play.  If anyone know of the setting that work 
or have any ideas please let me know.  Thanks!
IRQ: 5  DMA: 1 and 5


Re: AWE32 problems.

1997-03-03 Thread Lawrence Chim
Dark Lord of Sith wrote:
 
 I just can't get the AWE32 sound card to work under debian.  It
 works fine under dos,95, or NT.  I've installed all the patches and tried
 running it with kernel 2.0.27, 2.0.29, and 2.1.26 with no success.  I use
 the I/O ,IRQ and DMA values out of the manual which match the ones in
 95.  The card is plug and play.  If anyone know of the setting that work
 or have any ideas please let me know.  Thanks!
 IRQ: 5  DMA: 1 and 5

It is possibly becuase your sound card is PnP and you need the PnP
patch or download the isapnptools from sunsite.unc.edu

lawrence


Re: AWE32 problems.

1997-03-03 Thread Richard Morin


On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:

 Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 20:29:34 +1000
 From: Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org,
 Dark Lord of Sith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: AWE32 problems.
 
 Dark Lord of Sith wrote:
  
  I just can't get the AWE32 sound card to work under debian.  It
  works fine under dos,95, or NT.  I've installed all the patches and tried
  running it with kernel 2.0.27, 2.0.29, and 2.1.26 with no success.  I use
  the I/O ,IRQ and DMA values out of the manual which match the ones in
  95.  The card is plug and play.  If anyone know of the setting that work
  or have any ideas please let me know.  Thanks!
  IRQ: 5  DMA: 1 and 5
 
 It is possibly becuase your sound card is PnP and you need the PnP
 patch or download the isapnptools from sunsite.unc.edu
 
 lawrence
 
 

isapnptools is available as a .deb package.

Haven't tried it yet, but it is installed.

Does anyone know if it is possible for a pnp sound card to configure
without that package, on previous versions of debian?  I'm havin a heck of
a time getting sound support compiled into my kernel, and now I think it
is because its a pnp card.  Funny thing is with deb 1.1 I was able to
config my kernel for sound no problem.  ahh I'm just havin' a bad
week, first pon, now my sound...virtual scream I feel better now...

As someone mentioned before config problems are _not_ fun.

Rich M
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