sound blaster 16 config

Hi:

I am running 2.2.5-22 from RH 6.0 with a sound blaster 16 card with base_addr=0x220, IRQ=5, 8-bit DMA=1 and 16-bit DMA=5 (uncommenting a few lines in the pnpdump output. After running isapnp on this config file, the sound-modules appeared loaded after rebooting.

# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
sound                  58392   0  (autoclean) (unused)
soundlow                 300   0  (autoclean) [sound]
soundcore               2404   3  (autoclean) [sound]
autofs                  9188   1  (autoclean)
nfs                    30072  14  (autoclean)
nfsd                  151576   8  (autoclean)
lockd                  31208   1  (autoclean) [nfs nfsd]
sunrpc                 52420   1  (autoclean) [nfs nfsd lockd]
via-rhine               9024   1  (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1           2020   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               3548   1  (autoclean)
vfat                   11420   1  (autoclean)
fat                    25344   1  (autoclean) [vfat]          

# cat /proc/devices
Character devices:
  1 mem
  2 pty
  3 ttyp
  4 ttyS
  5 cua
  7 vcs
 10 misc
 14 sound
 21 sg
 29 fb
 36 netlink
128 ptm
136 pts

Block devices:
1 ramdisk
2 fd
3 ide0
8 sd
9 md
11 sr
22 ide1

But:
#cat /dev/sndstat
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux lion 2.2.5-22 #3 Thu Jan 13 17:50:55 EST 2000 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:

Card config:

Audio devices:

Synth devices:

Midi devices:

Timers:
0: System clock

Mixers:

I could not play music to it and was wondering about some info on sound config with 2.2.x (sound + soundcore + soundlow)? Am i running something new on an rather old hardware?

more info:

# isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
Board 1 has Identity e5 ff ff ff ff 70 00 8c 0e:  CTL0070 Serial No -1
[checksum e5]

could someone give me any hint?

Thanks a lot.

[quoted lines by Yao Wang on January 18, 2000, at 20:13]

Hi:

Use RedHat's sndconfig utility to get isapnp.conf and conf.modules right.

Since I don't think that RedHat supplies 2.2.5-22, did you compile your own kernel? If so, did you select /dev/audio and /dev/dsp support?

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thanks, i'll look into it.

this kernel is from the RedHat's update site. I recompiled it with built-in SCSI support (I added a SCSI chain with some CD Burners). I have specified sound as modules but I have not got them to work so far.

Thanks

yao

You can see that the 'sound' module is stated as not being used and you also have not loaded the 'sb' module. Doesn't RH6.0 have a sound configuration utility so you don't have to directly deal with editing the pnpdump output?

You see, there is no driver installed.

With a SB16 card I usually get an audio, synth and mixer device and you have none.

No, but you must also load the 'sb' module.

If you are into kernel compiling I found that since using linux-2.3.25 my SB16 card runs and installs a lot smoother because of the PNP support directly in the kernel. I always found /etc/isapnp.conf a pain to deal with.

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That's all anyone needs to know.

Run the sndconfig utility that comes with the system and you can't miss. It'll auto-detect it within a few microseconds, and after hitting return a couple of times to confirm that you can hear the sound samples, it's done. Simple.

(It's all documented in the redhat installation/user guides).

It's not the way to do this at all. You might get it working once, then next time you boot it'll be broken again.

Besides, "pnpdump -c" will give you output with the relevant lines uncommented. If I *have* to do it at all , this is how I create the pnp config file:

	pnpdump -c | egrep '^$|^#" | tee /etc/isapnp.conf

(You get a line clean file with that command, but without all the masses of comments).

The sndconfig utility usually gets things right first time, but recently I did have to redo everything manually after shoving in an old isa 3com card as a 2nd ethernet card and the addition of an internal pnp modem. (All the ISQs needed to be changed around as a result).

My recommendation is to make sure you have "pnp operating system yes" in the BIOS, boot into single user mode ("linux single" at the lilo bootprompt), move /etc/isapnp.conf and /etc/conf.modules
sideways (isapnp.conf at least), then run sndconfig with the system in
that condition (before any other devices or interrupts get allocated
that might "interfere" with the kernel's irq allocations.

(Why reboot just to get the sound up and going? Geez, this ain't microslop :) The only reason to shut down a linux box is when you wan to change the hardware...)

[...]

You're missing the sb.o, midi/opl3 and uart401.o modules for a start.

The magic for all this needs to go into /etc/conf.modules and would look something like:

	alias sound sb
	options -k sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1,5
	alias midi opl3
	options -k opl3 io=0x388

As I say, sndconfig will do this for you.

Your sound card will sing under linux, no problem.

On a redhat box, sndconfig.

Not a problem. Happy listening! :)

Cheers
Tony