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mariosangiorgio

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Registered: 2010-07-10

Posts: 25

Sound Blaster Awe 64

Hi,
I'm configuring an old PC and I my audio device is not working. I read on the wiki that ALSA is already contained in the kerneld and the I should not use alsaconf to avoid breaking UDEV.
It says that ISA cards required additional configuration but it doesn't say what should I do to configure the device, do you have any suggestion?

mariosangiorgio

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Registered: 2010-07-10

Posts: 25

Re: Sound Blaster Awe 64

Does anyone have any idea? What could happen if i run alsaconf to configure my device?

zhuk_av

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Registered: 2009-11-02

Posts: 36

Re: Sound Blaster Awe 64

Hi. I've configured an old PC with ISA SoundBlaster some time ago. You need to do next steps:

# pacman -S isapnptools

# pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf

Next, you should add right module to MODULES= line in your rc.conf. For my case it was snd-sbawe. After reboot you should see your device in lsdev with synthesizers and isapnp. Isapnp loads with kernel and parses /etc/isapnp.conf.

# lsdev 

Device            DMA   IRQ  I/O Ports
------------------------------------------------

...............................

Emu8000-1                    0620-0623
Emu8000-2                    0a20-0a23
Emu8000-3                    0e20-0e23

...............................

ISAPnP                       0213-0213
isapnp                       0a79-0a79

...............................

SoundBlaster      1 5    10  0220-022f

..............................

Now you can install alsa-utils and alsa-lib, configure sound levels with

$ alsamixer

and test results with

$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

mariosangiorgio

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Registered: 2010-07-10

Posts: 25

Re: Sound Blaster Awe 64

Thanks, it worked for my device.
Really appreciated!

Do you think that could be a good idea to create a link from the wiki to your post in order to make it clear how a ISA car has to be configured?