Re: Trouble with Soundblaster 16

["Steve Hamlin" <hamlinsg grove ufl edu>]

> Hi. I am having a small headache trying to install a creative
> labs soundblaster 16 card, windows calls it a 'Soundblaster 16 PnP' card.
>  Is it supported? After two kernel recompiles, it still doesn't go.

I have a SB 16 PnP that is working correctly.

Although it is integrated on a Dell XPS motherboard, it appears to be 
recognized by Win95 and Linux just like a PnP card - but no CD 
interface, so if that is part of the problem, I don't think I can 
help.

Here's what I did to get going under both:

The autoexec.bat in DOS 6.2 and Win95 has these settings - yours 
might be different if you already have a number of peripherals 
installed, but I think they are pretty standard for SB:

               SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6

This means SB I/O port 220, IRQ 5, low DMA 1, high DMA 5 (ignore T6)
MIDI port is 330.
For the MPU-401 and OPL-3 (or 4), the I/O addresses are 330 and 388, 
but I am not in Linux and don't remember which is which.  If you have 
Win95 running, look in SysDevices to see.  (I think MPU-401is MIDI 
and is I/O 330, but...)

Then, when configuring the kernel, enter this info under sound.  
Make sure to pay attention when it asks for the info - some of the 
items sound like they are needed, but under the notes for each item 
flags will warn you when NOT to use it for SB 16.

I wasn't sure the first time around if this was all that needed to be 
done, so I configured isapnptools 1.9, edited the isapnp.conf to set 
the above info, and rebooted.  When isapnp ran, it said that the SB 
16 was already configured - it appears the kernel does all of the 
configuring at kernel boot, before rc.local or rc.serial is run.

So, to recap, although you have had trouble with the kernel config 
[make sure to use make menuconfig or make xconfig (in X)], all I had 
to do was just set the kernel options correctly and everything was 
OK.