RE: PnP driver can't activate SB AWE 64

Nietzel, Earle R (earle.nietzel@es.unisys.com)
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 01:40:13 -0500

I just configured my SB AWE64 recently and had the same problem with the
wavetable, but it seems they have this pretty well documented because the
answer wasn't hard to find.

The biggest problem that I had was telling it which modules to load first
and which modules to load.

But when I look at my /dev/sndstat It is not same as what the HOWTO says.

Anyone else experience this?

All in all it took me almost a day to get everything working the way I want
it.

Sorry this doesn't to do with the modem problem :-(.

Earle

> Followup to: <37C9DEF4.FD4D9BD0@zeor.simegen.com>
> By author: Dancer <dancer@zeor.simegen.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > I had no luck...at least not until I told the BIOS to
> configure it. Then
> > my problems pretty much stopped. It seems a trifle disheartening,
> > though, that there doesn't seem to be any simple ways to config up
> > PnP/PCI devices....not without many many hours of hacking.
> Some sort of
> > device configuration db would be nice. We could then write a simple
> > interface to config devices to specific settings or to let them get
> > autoconfigged.
> >
> > ..Hmm. Maybe I'm talking through my hat here. Obviously the
> place for
> > device configuration is the driver...and therefore, equally
> obviously (I
> > hope) there should be a PnP/PCI config layer underneath
> that they can
> > use and talk to.
> >
> > Is there? Am I missing the point?
> >
>
> Yes, it isn't "obviously" the place at all.
>
> However, the SB AWE series all have a severe bug in their PnP
> information; specifically, the WaveTable device ("CTL009C" or
> "CTL00E4" on the two cards I have) claims to want a single I/O address
> at 0x0620; in fact, it wants *three* addresses (at 0x0620, 0x0A20,
> 0x0E20) and they all have to be activated. Every single AWE card I
> have seen has this bug.
>
> -hpa
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