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1 | Driver |
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4 | Informations about Audio Excel DSP 16 driver can be found in the source | |
5 | file aedsp16.c | |
6 | Please, read the head of the source before using it. It contain useful | |
7 | informations. | |
8 | ||
9 | Configuration | |
10 | ------------- | |
11 | ||
12 | The Audio Excel configuration, is now done with the standard Linux setup. | |
13 | You have to configure the sound card (Sound Blaster or Microsoft Sound System) | |
14 | and, if you want it, the Roland MPU-401 (do not use the Sound Blaster MPU-401, | |
15 | SB-MPU401) in the main driver menu. Activate the lowlevel drivers then select | |
16 | the Audio Excel hardware that you want to initialize. Check the IRQ/DMA/MIRQ | |
17 | of the Audio Excel initialization: it must be the same as the SBPRO (or MSS) | |
18 | setup. If the parameters are different, correct it. | |
19 | I you own a Gallant's audio card based on SC-6600, activate the SC-6600 support. | |
20 | If you want to change the configuration of the sound board, be sure to | |
21 | check off all the configuration items before re-configure it. | |
22 | ||
23 | Module parameters | |
24 | ----------------- | |
25 | To use this driver as a module, you must configure some module parameters, to | |
26 | set up I/O addresses, IRQ lines and DMA channels. Some parameters are | |
27 | mandatory while some others are optional. Here a list of parameters you can | |
28 | use with this module: | |
29 | ||
30 | Name Description | |
31 | ==== =========== | |
32 | MANDATORY | |
33 | io I/O base address (0x220 or 0x240) | |
34 | irq irq line (5, 7, 9, 10 or 11) | |
35 | dma dma channel (0, 1 or 3) | |
36 | ||
37 | OPTIONAL | |
38 | mss_base I/O base address for activate MSS mode (default SBPRO) | |
39 | (0x530 or 0xE80) | |
40 | mpu_base I/O base address for activate MPU-401 mode | |
41 | (0x300, 0x310, 0x320 or 0x330) | |
42 | mpu_irq MPU-401 irq line (5, 7, 9, 10 or 0) | |
43 | ||
44 | The /etc/modprobe.conf will have lines like this: | |
45 | ||
46 | options opl3 io=0x388 | |
47 | options ad1848 io=0x530 irq=11 dma=3 | |
48 | options aedsp16 io=0x220 irq=11 dma=3 mss_base=0x530 | |
49 | ||
50 | Where the aedsp16 options are the options for this driver while opl3 and | |
51 | ad1848 are the corresponding options for the MSS and OPL3 modules. | |
52 | ||
53 | Loading MSS and OPL3 needs to pre load the aedsp16 module to set up correctly | |
54 | the sound card. Installation dependencies must be written in the modprobe.conf | |
55 | file: | |
56 | ||
57 | install ad1848 /sbin/modprobe aedsp16 && /sbin/modprobe -i ad1848 | |
58 | install opl3 /sbin/modprobe aedsp16 && /sbin/modprobe -i opl3 | |
59 | ||
60 | Then you must load the sound modules stack in this order: | |
61 | sound -> aedsp16 -> [ ad1848, opl3 ] | |
62 | ||
63 | With the above configuration, loading ad1848 or opl3 modules, will | |
64 | automatically load all the sound stack. | |
65 | ||
66 | Sound cards supported | |
67 | --------------------- | |
68 | This driver supports the SC-6000 and SC-6600 based Gallant's sound card. | |
69 | It don't support the Audio Excel DSP 16 III (try the SC-6600 code). | |
70 | I'm working on the III version of the card: if someone have useful | |
71 | informations about it, please let me know. | |
72 | For all the non-supported audio cards, you have to boot MS-DOS (or WIN95) | |
73 | activating the audio card with the MS-DOS device driver, then you have to | |
74 | <ctrl>-<alt>-<del> and boot Linux. | |
75 | Follow these steps: | |
76 | ||
77 | 1) Compile Linux kernel with standard sound driver, using the emulation | |
78 | you want, with the parameters of your audio card, | |
79 | e.g. Microsoft Sound System irq10 dma3 | |
80 | 2) Install your new kernel as the default boot kernel. | |
81 | 3) Boot MS-DOS and configure the audio card with the boot time device | |
82 | driver, for MSS irq10 dma3 in our example. | |
83 | 4) <ctrl>-<alt>-<del> and boot Linux. This will maintain the DOS configuration | |
84 | and will boot the new kernel with sound driver. The sound driver will find | |
85 | the audio card and will recognize and attach it. | |
86 | ||
87 | Reports on User successes | |
88 | ------------------------- | |
89 | ||
90 | > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:35:40 +0100 | |
91 | > From: Mr S J Greenaway <sjg95@unixfe.rl.ac.uk> | |
92 | > To: riccardo@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it (Riccardo Facchetti) | |
93 | > Subject: Re: Audio Excel DSP 16 initialization code | |
94 | > | |
95 | > Just to let you know got my Audio Excel (emulating a MSS) working | |
96 | > with my original SB16, thanks for the driver! | |
97 | ||
98 | ||
99 | Last revised: 20 August 1998 | |
100 | Riccardo Facchetti | |
101 | fizban@tin.it |