Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 23, 1997 at 04:45:14PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: 2.1.59 has that problem too, 2.0.29 too... it is just out of memory (I recently reduced swap partition from 33Mb to 8Mb as it nearly never worked - 32 Mb ram BTW - and when

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-24 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
Ok, congrats for you nice keyboard. I heard a PSR-don'tRememberWhichNow years ago and the sounds were nice. Don't get slave to gadgets though! get Mark E. Boling, The jazz theory workbook, Advance Music... other books if you want, one especially good for pianists. If you learn jazz you can face

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-24 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Try using mutt. It is good (very good) and I have no problems reading my backlog of debian bug reports (23 Megabyte so far - in one singel folder, maybe a few thousand messages). And I have only 16MB of memory. THANK YOU, I _will_ try it...

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-24 Thread shawn . fumo
Nicola =) Nicole, A-ehm, NicolA is a male name in Italy, just think about Nicolas in the USA. Oops.. sorry about that! I think it was late when I wrote that message Yes, you're right, not nice being tied to the computer... not nice FM too nor eating CPU cycles for soft synthesis if

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-24 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Ok. Please mail me about PnP if you have new information. I will try the new kernels for myslf some time (far away from now, I suppose... lot to do). (I've sent another message to the list about it in the meantime.) 2.1.59 has that problem too,

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-22 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: As you suggested (THANK YOU), Marcus, I got 0.4.2c and it correctly detects size of memory on soundcard: AWE32-0.4.2c (RAM4096k)

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Oct 22, 1997 at 03:59:54PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: As you suggested (THANK YOU), Marcus, I got 0.4.2c and it correctly detects size of memory on soundcard: AWE32-0.4.2c (RAM4096k) I tried installing it on top of the AWE support coming with

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-22 Thread shawn . fumo
Nicole, Ah, about that cheap MIDI (possibly mute) keyboard, I saw that [EMAIL PROTECTED] was talking about it too, he was looking for midi software packages and mainly for software synthesis. Well, speaking of that, this is what I settled on. I turned out getting a Yamaha PSR-220. It cost

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-21 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: As you suggested (THANK YOU), Marcus, I got 0.4.2c and it correctly detects size of memory on soundcard: AWE32-0.4.2c (RAM4096k) I tried installing it on top of the AWE support coming with kernel 2.1.55... it works! (So far I tried with

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported? (fwd)

1997-10-21 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 12:41:36AM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: As you suggested (THANK YOU), Marcus, I got 0.4.2c and it correctly detects size of memory on soundcard: AWE32-0.4.2c (RAM4096k) I'm lucky to hear this. So there was

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-21 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: As you suggested (THANK YOU), Marcus, I got 0.4.2c and it correctly detects size of memory on soundcard: AWE32-0.4.2c (RAM4096k) I tried installing it on top of the AWE support

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-20 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] : Let me say that the awe driver package works just fine with a SB AWE32. : Don`t know about the 64 yet. Any people tried? I would suspect that it would work fine with the 64 as well. AFAIK, the AWE64 is the same as the 32, except for the extra 32 voices. Oh, and

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 04:05:56PM +1000, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] : Let me say that the awe driver package works just fine with a SB AWE32. : Don`t know about the 64 yet. Any people tried? I would suspect that it would work fine with the 64 as well. AFAIK, the

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-19 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
As you suggested (THANK YOU), Marcus, I got 0.4.2c and it correctly detects size of memory on soundcard: AWE32-0.4.2c (RAM4096k) Install was trivial, identical to 0.3.3e in the awe-drv package, just an install.sh script to call and then rebuild the kernel (of course every step is

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 09:04:14PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: #define AWE_DEFAULT_BASE_ADDR 0x620 /* base port address */ #define AWE_DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE 4096 /* kbytes */ Then it should work. Done, but I still get this

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-18 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I would be surprised if you could find a debian package newer that 0.3.3c (I filed a bug report against this old version). get the 0.4.2c at: http://bahamut.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~iwai/awedrv/ Oh, nice of you, so I won't go arowing in hamm

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-17 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: #define AWE_DEFAULT_BASE_ADDR 0x620 /* base port address */ #define AWE_DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE 4096 /* kbytes */ Then it should work. Done, but I still get this with kernel 2.0.30: AWE32 Sound Driver v0.3.3e (DRAM 28672k) This is

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-16 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
Tons of e-mail and attached files passed... Marcus and I spared those things to others, here's what survives of the message I had started writing for the list... On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: BTW, why

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-16 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: BTW, why does the sound module say what follows at each startup, when I have the default 4megs on the soundcard? (Sure, on

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 09:33:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Tons of e-mail and attached files passed... Marcus and I spared those things to others, here's what survives of the message I had started writing for the list... Yupp. Now the fine work can begin - sorting out :)

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 10:58:12PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: BTW, why does the sound module say what follows at

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: BTW, why does the sound module say what follows at each startup, when I have the default 4megs on the soundcard? (Sure, on some readme...) AWE32 Sound Driver v0.3.3e (DRAM 28672k) Mmmh. Because it can't detect your

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 1997 at 05:25:56PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Ok, for you HOWTO, I have isapnp working fine now. I find it *really* odd that you have to rearrange

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 1997 at 05:25:56PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Ok, for you HOWTO, I have isapnp working fine now. I find it *really* odd that you have to rearrange

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-12 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
In my previous posting, I forgot to attach the isapnp.conf file with the solution suggested by Marcus Brinkmann, here it is. Also, I mentioned kernel 2.1.55 - err... I _have_ problems building it at the moment - but forgot to say that I wanted to test it more for the IPC SHMEM kernel

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-12 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 1997 at 05:25:56PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Ok, for you HOWTO, I have isapnp working fine now. I find it *really* odd that you have to rearrange the order of the entrys in the isapnp.conf. A *quick* and *dirty* hack, and

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-10 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 17:25:56 -0200 (GMT+2) From: Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported? Ok, for your HOWTO, I have isapnp working fine now

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-09 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. I start the kernel module via /etc/modules. Just put sound in a line for its own. my /etc/modules is 'auto', what do you think? can I have 'auto' and 'sound' in the file? I don't think so. But with auto setting your sound module will be

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Excuse me Torsten, my mail to you should have gone to the list also, here is what I recall: On Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 11:38:15AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. I start the kernel module via /etc/modules. Just put sound in a line for its own. my

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-09 Thread liiwi
On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 08:38:56PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ed wrote: $30. 30 dollars, US, I tell you. If you read the fine print at 4front, you will find a 10 dollar surcharge for AWE 32/64 support. Let me say that the awe driver package works

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 09:58:36PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 08:38:56PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ed wrote: $30. 30 dollars, US, I tell you. If you read the fine print at 4front, you will find a 10 dollar surcharge for

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-08 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Britton wrote: I have the awe driver working with the awe 64, I think. At any rate the module loads without any complaints and I can play sound. /dev/mixer is definately not working right, but this is probably something I'm doing wrong. I havn't actually been able to

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-08 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Other MIDI files seem OK, drvmidi works very fine and so does xmixer (from the multimedia package; I find it more suitable than xmix, but I think the midi synth volume should go on it instead than on the drvmidi panel...) Sorry, didn't think AWE

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-08 Thread liiwi
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ed wrote: $30. 30 dollars, US, I tell you. If you read the fine print at 4front, you will find a 10 dollar surcharge for AWE 32/64 support. Let me say that the awe driver package works just fine with a SB AWE32. Don`t know about the 64 yet. Any people tried? I have

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 08:38:56PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ed wrote: $30. 30 dollars, US, I tell you. If you read the fine print at 4front, you will find a 10 dollar surcharge for AWE 32/64 support. Let me say that the awe driver package works just fine

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-07 Thread Ed
Pete Harlan wrote: How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it act/function like the SB16? The alternative to doing backflips getting this card to work under Linux is to pay $20 to 4front-tech for their commercial driver for Linux. It's hassle-free,

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-07 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ed wrote: Pete Harlan wrote: How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it act/function like the SB16? The alternative to doing backflips getting this card to work under Linux is to pay $20 to 4front-tech for their commercial

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-07 Thread Britton
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ed wrote: Pete Harlan wrote: How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it act/function like the SB16? The alternative to doing backflips getting this card to work under Linux is to pay $20 to 4front-tech for their

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 07:49:34AM +1000, Lawrence wrote: Marcus Brinkmann wrote: How your isapnp.conf file looks like? can you send it to me? Just done a minute ago (anyone else?) You just have to install and congfigure isapnp, that it is (and add the sound module to the modules

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-06 Thread Lawrence
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 07:49:34AM +1000, Lawrence wrote: Marcus Brinkmann wrote: How your isapnp.conf file looks like? can you send it to me? Just done a minute ago (anyone else?) You just have to install and congfigure isapnp, that it is (and add the

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-06 Thread Pete Harlan
How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it act/function like the SB16? The alternative to doing backflips getting this card to work under Linux is to pay $20 to 4front-tech for their commercial driver for Linux. It's hassle-free, works, and is good for five

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-05 Thread Britton
On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 11:28:24AM -0800, Britton wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it act/function like the SB16? It will act like a SB16 yes, but

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 04:35:21PM -0800, Britton wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 11:28:24AM -0800, Britton wrote: What you want is awedrv, which is available as a debian source package. Trouble is, it won't compile as a module, which I think

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-05 Thread Britton
You HAVE to install it as a module, because isapnp must be started first, and then the sound module has to be installed. In fact, isapnp will be started automagically by the current initrd scripts, so you have just to install it, and add two entrys two the isapnp config file (mail me

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-05 Thread Lawrence
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 11:28:24AM -0800, Britton wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it act/function like the SB16? It will act like a SB16 yes, but this is nothing

is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-04 Thread Paul Miller
How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it act/function like the SB16? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-04 Thread Britton
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it act/function like the SB16? It will act like a SB16 yes, but this is nothing wonderful, as the SB16 is quite pathetic. xmix is the only program I've run into with a line select

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 11:28:24AM -0800, Britton wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it act/function like the SB16? It will act like a SB16 yes, but this is nothing wonderful, as the SB16 is quite