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Subject: Re: sndconfig in rh 6.0
From: carver@cs.siu.edu (Norman Carver)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:03:18 -0500 (CDT)
> i upgrade to rh 6.0 and i still get the verify ld problem when running
> sndconfig. i try adding the line (VERIFYLD N) in the /etc/isapnp.conf
> file but when sndconfig runs, that file is backed up and a new isapnp.conf
> file is generated. i try doing manual setup but i still get the same
> problem. i checked the archives, but i still can't get this to
> work. can anyone help?
>
> sb aw32 card - the card is autodetectd
> isapnptools-1.18-2
> kernel-2.2.5-15
> sndconfig-0.33-1
I have an AWE64 that I finally got working (it appears) under RH5.2.
sndconfig did NOT detect my card and manual configuration
did not get midi working.
pnpdump did not detect my card (only internal modem), so tried
upgrading to latest isapnp. Still no go. Finally found that
I needed reset option with pnpdump.
Running isapnp, though, produced verify LD warning plus an error
message about problems at a certain line and termination (sorry,
don't have the message with me). Here's what I found: pnpdump
was returning LD 1 for game port on the AWE64 (LD 2 for wavetable).
If I recommended all the game port settings out of isapnp.conf then
isapnp ran. Finally found a sample AWE32/64 isapnp.conf somewhere
that had the game port as LD3 rather than one. Tried that and it
worked fine.
So, there appears to be some problem with isapnp/pnpdump and the
LD numbers it generates on (some) AWE cards.
BTW, I again tried sndconfig (after running isapnp), and it did now
detect my card. The config failed though because of the LD problem.
So, I would suggest you check the LD value for the game port in your
isapnp.conf file and set it to 3 if it is 2 (or comment the game
settings out again). Now try isapnp again.
Then you need to manually configure the conf.modules file.
=========
Subject: Re: X11amp
From: Leung Yau Wai <cs_lywab@stu.ust.hk>
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 11:24:18 +0800 (HKT)
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Jeff Smelser wrote:
> > >Is anyone else have trouble with x11amp? Every time I load it up >and
> > >select a file to play, it just leaves my screen. Nothing more. Why is
> > >redhat sending out a program that seems not to work?
I would like to give you some extra information. I have the same
problem as you when I run x11amp, it lock up when I choose add file or
dir. Moreover I found that my machine sometimes will report gmc not
response will request to delete it.
I found that the problem is come from netfs. So if you don't need
nfs or netfs, try to not run it when system startup or shutdown it when
before your system connect to Internet '/etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs stop'.
After I not run netfs, my system running perfectly.
===
Subject: Re: X11amp
From: Jeff Smelser <smelser@usa.net>
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 12:26:34 -0500
Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
>
> >No, its not MY machine. xmms is the update. I would try it.
>
> Hmm. Works find, except when i forget to load the sound modules. The only
> thing that bugs is the playlist.
Thats fine.. I have 4 linux boxes here.. I had the modules loaded. Chris
had it right, NFS is a major bug in that version.
===
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:41:05 -0500
Subject: Re: RealPlayer problems?
Michael Newlyn Blake (mblake@Frogtown.Com) said:
>
> I seem to recall discussion on this list a while ago of problems with Real
> Player in the 2.2 kernel. Does anybody have any current information on
> this? I have an SB16 card that works beautifully with everything BUT real
> player, and even that used to work until the restructure of the sound
> drivers in the kernel.
>
> I am currently running kernel 2.2.2, RealPlayer shows it's version as
> 5.0.0.45, and it just gives the generic error 1 when accessing the sound
> device in any way.
>
> Any suggestions?
From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes:
--
RealPlayer
==========
Current releases of Real Player 5.0 depend on a bug in the sound
sub-system which is no longer there. Consequently, they don't work.
Real is aware of the problem and should have an updated version of the
software available shortly. In the mean time, you can always try
backing up your copy of rvplayer, and then editing it by:
dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=657586 conv=notrunc dd
if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=665986 conv=notrunc
If you're lucky, you'll then have sound....
You may also need to edit it with
dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=702554 conv=notrunc
as well. Alternately, download rpopen from
http://onramp.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/ and pre-load it before you run
rvplayer (it's a shared object which blocks rvplayer from doing the
NONBLOCKing open of /dev/dsp).
===
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 02:04:34 -0500
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster.... Again
Peter J Spalding <pjs@iserv.net> wrote:
> As many of you may have recalled I was having DIRE
> problems getting my SB AWE 32 to work. I was finally,
> able to get my 2.2.2 kernel to use it my forgoing the OSS
> modules, and building support directly into the kernel.
> Now my Gnome / Enlightenment has sounds, and everything is
> good.... or is it? Today, I went to load up my x11AMP,
> (while hearing Enlightenment make its chimes and noises)
> and hit the play button, and no sound came out... hurm, i
> thought... weird... so i loaded x11amp up, in a term
> window, to see what kind of error messages were coming
> up... "Cant initialize Audio" was in the background. Yet,
> gnome and E. are making its sounds through the board. So
> I tried downloading the latest version of Amp... Same
> thing. I ran Dmesg, to see if there were any error
> messages, and sure enough, it tells me I only am using a
> Sound Blaster 16, and that the AWE 32 hardware is not
> detected. Could this be a part of the problem? If
> anybody has a solution for me, I would appreciate it...
You have several questions rolled into one.
1) Enlightenment and Gnome grab the audio device for their drivers. As a
result xamp fails. Either unload or disable the sound server for E and Gnome
and it will work. (I have the same problem...) One workaround is to use the
Esound Player instead. It utilizes the sound server in E and Gnome...
2) The SB16 message is perfectly normal. To get FULL support for the AWE
you'll have to compile the kernel and check the "advanced" sound drivers
button, there you'll see a new entry for the AWE synth.
You can then load this module at boot.
3) You are probably better off with the OSS drivers instead of the
monolithic drivers compiled into the kernel. More and more software is
supporting the former since it offers a uniform driver architecture...
Getting it to work is EASY provided you remember that you need to set up the
/etc/pnp.conf and /etc/conf.modules files to correctly reflect your desired
configuration.
Hint: if you do use /etc/pnp.conf check out what the BIOS sets the card to
first, then set up /etc/pnp.conf to the same values.. this will avoid other
conflicts later...
4) sndconfig does a good job, but it does NOT initialize the card at bootup.
You need to modify the /etc/pnp.conf.
5) The AWE synth driver will not be autoloaded until you make an alias for
it too in the /etc/modules.conf file.
===
From: Bernhard Erdmann <Bernhard.Erdmann@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:34:53 +0100
Subject: RE: SoundBlaster.... Again
"Bill Gilmore" <caddmasters@home.com> wrote:
> Hmmm...OK, different card. System sounds, x11amp and CD
> player work with KDE, FVWM, etc. Can't get x11amp or cd
> player audio through speakers with GNOME and
> Enlightenment, but system sounds are working fine. I
> checked the mixer and turned off/on the mute buttons and
> moved the volume sliders, no change. Any ideas?
You have to turn off Gnome audio support in Gnome control center to run
x11amp. I don't know why, but this is an issue.
===
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:14:08 -0500
Subject: Re: rvplayer and 2.2.3 kernel
Bill Nottingham (notting@redhat.com) said:
> Jonathan M. Prigot (jprigot@rics.bwh.harvard.edu) said:
> > OK, refresh my memory. I can't get any sound out of Real Networks'
> > rvplayer because of a change in sound processing in the 2.2.x kernel.
> > There is at least one workaround. What is/the workaround? Is it
> > documented in an FAQ so that I don't have to bother people again?
>
> Documentation/Changes, in the kernel source.
In particular...
--
RealPlayer
==========
Current releases of Real Player 5.0 depend on a bug in the sound
sub-system which is no longer there. Consequently, they don't work.
Real is aware of the problem and should have an updated version of the
software available shortly. In the mean time, you can always try
backing up your copy of rvplayer, and then editing it by:
dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=657586 conv=notrunc dd
if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=665986 conv=notrunc
If you're lucky, you'll then have sound....
You may also need to edit it with
dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seek=702554 conv=notrunc
as well. Alternately, download rpopen from
http://onramp.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/ and pre-load it before you run
rvplayer (it's a shared object which blocks rvplayer from doing the
NONBLOCKing open of /dev/dsp).
===
From: Eric Cifreo <ecifreo@texas.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:41:35 -0600
Subject: Re: Real Audio player problem
Matthew A. Reklau wrote:
> I installed the realaudio player rpm from
> Both times I try this I get no output and the following error message:
>
> "The codec for this video was not found on your system, please upgrade"
>
> and also
>
> File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested RealAudio
> decoder.
Real Player can't find it's libraries. They're there on your system, in
/usr/lib/Real. You can set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include this
directory, or just copy the libraries to /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib.
===
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:18:13 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: two sound cards
> This worked to enable, as you said, the same audio out of both cards. The
> only problem is, I need to be able to address each card separately, such as:
> Card 1 /dev/dsp0
> Card 2 /dev/dsp1
>
> Any other suggestions?
You need to reconfigure the cards so that each has separate I/O IRQ and DMA
settings for the 8 and 16 bit DMA, the MPU and the FM synth. Alternatively grab
a cheap ES1370 based PCI card - that has two playback channels (one a bit
limited) and one record.
===
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 21:16:42 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: two sound cards
> I understood you set the IRQ and such is through the isapnp.conf file. I
> can't however figure out how to specify the two separate cards in that file,
> pnpdump only shows one in the file and I don't know how to assign the other
> card identifying parameters such as readport. The cards are both PnP cards
If Pnpdump shows only one of your two cards check the other isn't in fact
a non PnP soundblaster. If so you need the DOS tools and jumper stuff.
> I have a bunch of ES1371 cards lying around. How is it they have two
> separate simultaneous playback channels? Are they mono and get broken up to
> the left and right channel? I need them on separate lines, mono is fine but
> they should be 16 bit.
According to the docs I have here it has two totally separate playbacks too
(The ES137x cards dont have a hardware synth, windows drivers use the
2nd channel for the synth emulation in software).
===
From: Benjamin Sher <sher07@bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:30:06 -0500
Subject: Playing RealPlayer 5.0 - problem
Dear Gerald and friends:
I just installed RealPlayer 5.0. Installation, thanks to the wise advice
of list members, was perfect. The RealPlayer welcome routine (both video
and audio) were perfect on my new AWE64 card. I configured Netscape's
applications without a hitch, adding "rm" to ra and ram and adding the
application "rvplayer" which was found in the usr/bin/ directory
(usr/bin/rvplayer). But when I tried to play a clip from a station or a
live station (in this case Russian radio from Radio Free Europe, which
uses RealAudio 3.0), I get a message saying "RealPlayer is already
running." I made use not to try any Real G-2 clips since Real 5 can't
play them.
Any idea what I am doing wrong. I must have missed a step somewhere.
===
From: Benjamin Sher <sher07@bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:26:33 -0500
Subject: RealPlayer 5.0 PLAYS Netscape
Dear friends:
I am celebrating. My RealPlayer 5.0 is playing beautifully on both
Netscape Com 4.07 and Netscape Com 4.5, which I just downloaded and
installed.
So, what did I do wrong? Oh, how unforgiving Linux/Unix is: I forgot to
add %s to the helper application argument in Netscape's Edit, Pref,
Navigator. In fact, I never knew I was supposed to. Who gets the credit?
Well, list members for clues and hints and commands. But the point man
this time was Using Linux, which gave me precise info on configuring
Netscape, namely, the magic %s as in /usr/bin/rvplayer %s (with a space
between "rvplayer" and "%s".
By the way, I also installed WordPerfect 7.0 from my 3rd Red Hat CD. It
shows up clearly as a 31meg file as usr/bin/wpe but I have been unable
to actually open it up, at least from Xwindows.
Using Linux also taught me to create a symbolic link between my 4.5
Netscape Com at /opt/netscape/netscape and Netscape Com 4.07 (both
executable and help files). But I would like to replace the 4.07
Communicator on the Start menu with the 4.5 Communicator. Any ideas?
===
From: Benjamin Sher <sher07@bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:46:26 -0500
Subject: Netscape -- "Unsupported Linux 2.0"
I wish to thank those of you who stressed the importance of downloading
the "unsupported Linux 2.0" version of Netscape Communicator 4.51, NOT
the supported version. By the way, one list member made a lot of sense
by suggesting I download the file from Netscape instead of taking a
chance on a "contributed" RPM. I did so and then unzipped the "tar.gz"
file with the tar command.
===
From: Daniele Bernardini <Daniele.Bernardini@physik.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:52:01 +0100
Subject: Re: soundblaster configuration
Newsgroups: linux.dev.sound
marzuki mohamad wrote:
> actually I'm porting from NT to red hat linux 5.1 (newbie in linux), the
> problem is
> my sound blaster card was not proper in linux compare to when I'm using
> NT
> my card setting in NT was
> irq=7
> dma=1
> 16bit dma=5
> addr=220
> i already use sndconfig program but still can't get any sound. may be
> I'm doing wrong
> please help me..
>
> mm5087@pd.jaring.my
I have the same sound card and went through the same configuration. This
is what you have to do:
1) compile your kernel with sound as MODULE, with the right
setting for your card. (more info under sound-HOWTO)
2) run pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
3) uncomment the entries that apply to the configuration of the
kernel.
4) add to your boot scripts the following lines:
/sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
/sbin/insmod sound
(I