Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 09:53:51 -0500 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Alejandro_Ram=EDrez?= <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "James Kalmadge" <kalmadg@banet.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: RE: AWE 64 Gold soundcard frustration Message-ID: <00de01be9962$972ce860$a6630a0a@megared.net.mx> References: <3733D03E.41C67EA6@banet.net>
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Hi,
You should visit this place, I think it may help you.
http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/awepnp-freebsd.txt
Ales
----- Original Message -----
From: James Kalmadge <kalmadg@banet.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 1999 12:48 AM
Subject: AWE 64 Gold soundcard frustration
> Fellow travelers,
>
> I have been reading diligently all the letters about sound cards
> coming through this group and have gleaned much knowledge
> and even had success:
>
> stegosaurus# dmesg
> Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
> The Regents of the University of California. All rights
> reserved.
>
> FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE #0: Mon May 3 00:42:06 EDT 1999
> james@stegosaurus:/usr/src/sys/compile/STEGOSAUR
> CPU: Cyrix 6x86 (486-class CPU)
> Origin = "CyrixInstead" DIR=0x2231 Stepping=2 Revision=2
> real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
>
> FreeBSD Kernel Configuration Utility - Version 1.1
> Type "help" for help or "visual" to go to the visual
> configuration interface (requires MGA/VGA display or
> serial terminal capable of displaying ANSI graphics).
> config> pnp 1 0 os enable irq0 7 drq0 1 drq1 5 port0 0x220 port1 0x330
> port2 0x388
> config> pnp 1 1 os enable port0 0x208
> config> pnp 1 2 os enable port0 0x620 port1 0xa20 port2 0xe20
> config> pnp 1 3 os disable
> config> quit
> avail memory = 30457856 (29744K bytes)
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
> chip0 <generic PCI bridge (vendor=1106 device=0585 subclass=0)> rev 16
> on pci0:0:0
> chip1 <generic PCI bridge (vendor=1106 device=0586 subclass=1)> rev 2 on
> pci0:7:0
> pci0:7:1: VIA Technologies, device=0x0571, class=storage (ide) [no
> driver assigned]
> vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 48 int a irq ?? on pci0:10:0
> Probing for PnP devices:
> CSN 1 Vendor ID: CTL009e [0x9e008c0e] Serial 0x01529d8d
> PnP: override config for CSN 1 LDN 0 vend_id 0x9e008c0e
> PnP: override config for CSN 1 LDN 1 vend_id 0x9e008c0e
> PnP: override config for CSN 1 LDN 2 vend_id 0x9e008c0e
> PnP: override config for CSN 1 LDN 3 vend_id 0x9e008c0e
>
> skipping . .
>
> sb0 at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 on isa
> sb0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.16>
> sbxvi0 at 0x0 drq 5 on isa
> sbxvi0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.16>
> sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa
> sbmidi0: <SoundBlaster MPU-401>
> opl0 at 0x388 on isa
> opl0: <Yamaha OPL-3 FM>
> awe0 at 0x620 on isa
>
> REAL PROGRESS!
>
>
> However, from Conrad Sabatier:
>
> > Last but not least, check the output of /dev/sndstat:
>
> > $ cat /dev/sndstat
>
> > VoxWare Sound Driver:3.5-alpha15-970902 (Wed Aug 6 22:58:35 PDT 1997 > >
Amancio Hasty@rah.star-gate.com)
> > Config options:
>
> > Installed drivers:
> > Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
> > Type 2: SoundBlaster
> > Type 6: SoundBlaster16
> > Type 25: AWE32 Synth
> > Type 7: SB16 MIDI
>
> > Card config:
> > SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1
> > SoundBlaster16 at 0xffffffff irq 1 drq 5
> > SB16 MIDI at 0x330 irq 1
> > OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 irq 1
> > AWE32 Synth at 0x620 irq 1
>
> > Audio devices:
> > 0: SoundBlaster 16 4.16
> > Synth devices:
> > 0: Yamaha OPL-3
> > 1: AWE32-0.4.2c (RAM24576k)
>
> > Midi devices:
> > 0: SoundBlaster 16
>
> > Midi Timers:
> > 0: System clock
>
> > Mixers:
> > 0: SoundBlaster
> > 1: AWE32 Equalizer
>
> But:
>
> stegosaurus# cat /dev/sndstat
> cat: /dev/sndstat: No such file or directory
> stegosaurus#
>
>
> That's not all.
>
> On http://bahamut.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~iwai/awedrv/index.html
> updated Mar 8, 1999
> links to FREEBSD ports are 404
> First:
> http://multiverse.com/~rhh/awedrv/
> Transporting you HERE: http://www.pagesz.net/~aa8vb/awedrv. If your
> browser doesn't transition for you, click on the link above.
>
> That one doesn't exist either.
>
> In attempts to compile some of the sources which are available
> for LINUX I have not been sucessful.
>
> Some executables which I have found around the web are
> either for M$ machines or ELF files or Linux or ???
>
> Anybody get something that works, yet?
>
> I'd hate to go back to W95 to do the sound file work I've
> been doing. (The Creative software on W95 won't work with
> the E: drive anyway.)
>
> I'd appreciate any help.
>
> Thank You.
>
>
> James
>
>
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