problem configuring sb16 and alsa

[Kerry Hoath]

You are welcome to try them, but if you intend
to sample or do lots of audio work speakup does not play well with them.
You can rebuild your drivers with the following command-line:
./configure --with-debug=basic
then make;make install
and it should dump information to the logs as it tries to detect the card.
You could also run scanport and see if a non-zero value appears around
port 0x220 and if so the card is alive.
Some creative cards were asleep until awoken, and guess what
that is exactly what diagnose did before testing it.
You could r un diagnose, then warm-boot to Linux see if the card works,
or run pnpdump and make sure the card is not in the output
pnpdump >/tmp/isapnp.conf
and look through it for creative devices.
If they are there your card is plug 'n' play.
Yes the plug 'n' play cards also had jumpers :-)
Is it any wonder we ended up calling these cards sound bastard 16 cards <smile>
there were so many kinds revisions and quirks.
I had a plug 'n' play card I tried to get going unsuccessfully with alsa
the other day; an awe32 or somesuch,
and it wouldn't go but it could have been a broken card.
I'll think on it, but I am out of ideas for now.
Do check the pnpdump output, some non-plug 'n' play cards also had plug 'n'
play on them and it depended on th e wake up method.
Creative were shockers in that regard. For a laugh read the comments
at the top of sb16.c or the file that controls the dsp on the sb16.
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:46:42PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Pci cards cost money, and I don't have any to spend now (grin). I don't suppose I'd have better luck with the oss free kernel drivers? Thanks.
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:04:42AM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> > Put a PCI card in the machine.
> > ISA cards require dma bounce buffers and aren't efficient these days.
> > If youonly hae that card cmos is your best bet;
> > although I have no idea on alsa 0.9.x 0.5.x works well for me
> > so I have not upgraded.

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