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You have no idea how complicated HOW-TO's make this seem! I thought that it was fairly easy, so here's how I went about it. Obviously at the start of the installation I selected that I wanted Sound installed, and the various sound apps that went with it. I'm sure the same applies aswell for the Awe 32, and Sb16.

With the values you obtained from the how-to "Setting up Plug and Play devices", you will be letting Linux actually know you have a Sound Card. The part of my /etc/isapnp.conf that contains the resources for the Sound Card is as below, yours should be something similar. Remember that your serial number of you card will be different to mine.

        (READPORT 0x0203)
        (ISOLATE)
        (IDENTIFY *)
        #(VERIFYLD N)

        #Awe64 PnP Raw Wav output configuration
        (CONFIGURE CTL00c1/511546490 (LD 0
                (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
                (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 3))
                (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 7))
                (IO 0 (BASE 0x0240))
                (IO 1 (BASE 0x0330))
                (IO 2 (BASE 0x0388))

                (ACT Y)
        ))

        #Awe 64 Pnp Wavetable output configuration
        (CONFIGURE CTL00c1/511546490 (LD 2
                (IO 0 (BASE 0x0640))
                (IO 1 (BASE 0x0A40))
                (IO 2 (BASE 0x0E40))

                (ACT Y)
        ))

        (WAITFORKEY)
        

The above sets up two different devices located on the Card. You may have notied what all the different parts do already. The top part reads in information on any ISA PnP cards that you have in your machine. The details that you need to change are as follows :

• Line 8 : The Number after the IRQ needs to be set as in your Windows Config. Acceptable values are (I think) 5, 7, 10. Your printer ports, lpt1 usually uses IRQ 7 though, so be careful.
• Line 9 : The Number after channel should be the digit before the slash in the DMA Settings under Win95.
• Line 10 : The Number after channel should be the digit after the slash in the DMA Settings under Win95.
• Line 10 : The Number after channel should be the digit after the slash in the DMA Settings under Win95.
• Lines 11-13 : The values after the 0x should be filled in in order, corresponding to the values you obtained for the card in Win95.
• Lines 20-22 : The values after the 0x should be filled in in order, corresponding to the values you obtained for Wavetable properties of the card in Win95.

From the command Line, run : sndconfig --noprobe, and enter the config options Linus give a little speech!

This information will not work on the new set of SoundBlaster PCI Live cards, Creative Labs are working on their own driver for the Linux Kernel.

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