Creative SB AWE64 - how to activate

Bob McClure Jr robertmcclure at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 29 15:48:46 UTC 2004


On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:00:49AM -0400, Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> First a Big Thanks for the help when I swapped my
>   Toshiba CDROM for a SONY CDRW 
> where I appended my /boot/grub/grub.conf
>   at the end of the kernel line I added ...    hdc=ide-scsi
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
> 
> Now I want to activate my Sound Card (there was no need before)
> so doing my research and discovery I have tried the following
> 
> My OS is Red Hat 9 with kernel-2.4.20-31.9
> and current with YUM as of Sep 26, 2004
> 
> [root]# cat /proc/isapnp    { it displays the following }
> 
> Card 1 'CTL00c1:Creative SB AWE64 PnP' PnP version 1.0 Product version
> 1.0
> 
>   Logical device 0 'CTL0042:Audio'
>     Device is active
>     Active port 0x220,0x330,0x388
>     Active IRQ 5 [0x2]
>     Active DMA 1,5
> 
>   Logical device 1 'CTL7002:Game'
>     Compatible device PNPb02f
>     Device is not active
> 
>   Logical device 2 'CTL0022:WaveTable'
>     Device is not active
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 
> when I look thru  Red Hat MAIN MENU -> 
>                              SYSTEM Tools -> 
>                                 HARDWARE BROWSER ->
>  it displays the following:
> 
> SOUND Cards   ->  Creative SB AWE64:Audio
>                   Creative SB AWE64:WaveTable
>                   Device Information:
>                              Manufacturer: Unknown
>                              Driver:           SB
> and under
> 
> Unknown Devices -> Creative SB AWE64 PnP:Game
>                    Device Information:
>                              Manufacturer: Unknown
>                              Driver:           ns558
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
> 
> [root]# rpm -q sndconfig
> sndconfig-0.70-2
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
> 
> I was able to find the following on my system
> 
> [root usr/sbin/sndconfig]#ls -al sndconfig
>      sndconfig -> ../../sbin/sndconfig                       {a link}
> 
> [root usr/share/sndconfig]#ls -al
>      sample2.au                                              {a file}
>      sample.au                                               {a file}
>      sample.midi                                             {a file}
> 
> [root sbin]# ls -al sndconfig
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       263776 Feb  7  2003 sndconfig
> 
> [root sbin]# sndconfig
> bash: sndconfig: command not found
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
> 
> So HOW can I activate my sound card???
> 
> Chris Cz (still a Newbie)

How did you become root?  If you did "su", you got root's identity but
not his environment, especially his PATH, so you can't execute stuff
in /sbin or /usr/sbin without specifying the full path,
e.g. /usr/sbin/sndconfig.  If you do "su -", you will get root's
complete world including PATH, just as if you logged in as root to
begin with.  "man su" for more info.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
Grace happens.




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