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I used Creative 'diagnose' program in DOS to determine the settings for my 
AWE64 card.  I have it posted at my website
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/diagnose.exe

You can run it from a DOS boot floppy disk.

I may also have used DOS ctcm to set the following settings, so they might 
differ from your card.  Try dma16=5 anyway (I think you only need to 
choose a free dma16 setting in the range 3 4 5, with dma1 in the range 0 1 
2).  In theory you should use isapnp program from Slackware to set these 
settings, with a configuration file, but it is rather complicated and I 
gave up on it eventually and just boot via DOS if I want to change 
settings, or determine the default with diagnose and use that.

insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5

The next part is only for playing midi files:

insmod awe_wave io=0x620 (the io part is probably optional)

awe_wave is not needed if you don't use the awe feature for playing midi 
files, but opl3, in which case

insmod opl3 io=0x388

I think mp3 players use dma16 and wav players do not need it.

Can you play wav (slackware sox package, play) or midi (playmidi) files?
I think I posted a libc5 playmidi package.  You need to specify with -4 to 
use opl3, or with -e external midi, or -a use awe.

Try also workbone on a music cd, after linking hdc or whatever your CD-ROM 
drive is to /dev/cdrom:  ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom

There is a uclibc mplayer package that will play wav or mp3 files (with 
the correct dma16).

I posted a lot about sound in the archives a few years ago.  Search via 
the BL3 website, support, archives 'awe64'.
v_midi may be needed for external midi (electronic keyboard)
You can play streaming mp3's with mpg123 and a script.
Sindi

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> I've installed a Sound Blaster AWE64 (isa) accordingly to the page "How to
> Activate SoundBlaster Audio":
>
> I've got the sound modules    soundcore.o    sound.o    uart401.o    and
> sb.o
> The are in the /lib/modules/2.2.26/misc diretory;
>
> I've activated them in  /etc/rc  like this:
>
> insmod soundcore
> insmod sound
> insmod uart401
> insmod sb  io=0x220  irq=5  dma=1  dma16=0  mpu_io=0x330
>
> Then I've installed mpg123.tgz
>
> mpg123 /tmp/test.mp3   gives me no sound at all, and the system echoes a
> message "Can't open /dev/dsp!"
>
> This same SB card is working properly under Windows '95, '98 and Debian, but
> not under BL3
>
> (In Windows its configuration is  irq5,  dma1,  and occupies ranges
> 0330-0331  and  0388-0388,  also
> 0620-0623  for MIDI;
> I believe these numbers are not different from SB defaults; however it
> doesn't mention a dma16.
>
> Would you please tell me something?
>
> Thanks again,
> Teixeira
>
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