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3.8 KiB
101 lines
3.8 KiB
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Information about Audio Excel DSP 16 driver can be found in the source |
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file aedsp16.c |
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Please, read the head of the source before using it. It contain useful |
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information. |
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Configuration |
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The Audio Excel configuration, is now done with the standard Linux setup. |
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You have to configure the sound card (Sound Blaster or Microsoft Sound System) |
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and, if you want it, the Roland MPU-401 (do not use the Sound Blaster MPU-401, |
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SB-MPU401) in the main driver menu. Activate the lowlevel drivers then select |
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the Audio Excel hardware that you want to initialize. Check the IRQ/DMA/MIRQ |
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of the Audio Excel initialization: it must be the same as the SBPRO (or MSS) |
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setup. If the parameters are different, correct it. |
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I you own a Gallant's audio card based on SC-6600, activate the SC-6600 support. |
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If you want to change the configuration of the sound board, be sure to |
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check off all the configuration items before re-configure it. |
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Module parameters |
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To use this driver as a module, you must configure some module parameters, to |
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set up I/O addresses, IRQ lines and DMA channels. Some parameters are |
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mandatory while some others are optional. Here a list of parameters you can |
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use with this module: |
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Name Description |
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MANDATORY |
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io I/O base address (0x220 or 0x240) |
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irq irq line (5, 7, 9, 10 or 11) |
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dma dma channel (0, 1 or 3) |
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OPTIONAL |
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mss_base I/O base address for activate MSS mode (default SBPRO) |
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(0x530 or 0xE80) |
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mpu_base I/O base address for activate MPU-401 mode |
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(0x300, 0x310, 0x320 or 0x330) |
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mpu_irq MPU-401 irq line (5, 7, 9, 10 or 0) |
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A configuration file in /etc/modprobe.d/ directory will have lines like this: |
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options opl3 io=0x388 |
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options ad1848 io=0x530 irq=11 dma=3 |
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options aedsp16 io=0x220 irq=11 dma=3 mss_base=0x530 |
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Where the aedsp16 options are the options for this driver while opl3 and |
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ad1848 are the corresponding options for the MSS and OPL3 modules. |
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Loading MSS and OPL3 needs to pre load the aedsp16 module to set up correctly |
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the sound card. Installation dependencies must be written in configuration |
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files under /etc/modprobe.d/ directory: |
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softdep ad1848 pre: aedsp16 |
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softdep opl3 pre: aedsp16 |
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Then you must load the sound modules stack in this order: |
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sound -> aedsp16 -> [ ad1848, opl3 ] |
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With the above configuration, loading ad1848 or opl3 modules, will |
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automatically load all the sound stack. |
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Sound cards supported |
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This driver supports the SC-6000 and SC-6600 based Gallant's sound card. |
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It don't support the Audio Excel DSP 16 III (try the SC-6600 code). |
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I'm working on the III version of the card: if someone have useful |
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information about it, please let me know. |
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For all the non-supported audio cards, you have to boot MS-DOS (or WIN95) |
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activating the audio card with the MS-DOS device driver, then you have to |
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<ctrl>-<alt>-<del> and boot Linux. |
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Follow these steps: |
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1) Compile Linux kernel with standard sound driver, using the emulation |
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you want, with the parameters of your audio card, |
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e.g. Microsoft Sound System irq10 dma3 |
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2) Install your new kernel as the default boot kernel. |
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3) Boot MS-DOS and configure the audio card with the boot time device |
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driver, for MSS irq10 dma3 in our example. |
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4) <ctrl>-<alt>-<del> and boot Linux. This will maintain the DOS configuration |
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and will boot the new kernel with sound driver. The sound driver will find |
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the audio card and will recognize and attach it. |
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Reports on User successes |
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> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:35:40 +0100 |
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> From: Mr S J Greenaway <sjg95@unixfe.rl.ac.uk> |
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> To: riccardo@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it (Riccardo Facchetti) |
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> Subject: Re: Audio Excel DSP 16 initialization code |
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> |
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> Just to let you know got my Audio Excel (emulating a MSS) working |
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> with my original SB16, thanks for the driver! |
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Last revised: 20 August 1998 |
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Riccardo Facchetti |
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fizban@tin.it
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