Sound cards again

[Richard Smith]

Andrew Dennis wrote:
> 
> hi all,
> 
> I've asked questions about sound cards, and as this an on and off type of
> project i'm about to ask some more.
> 
> my machine is a toshiba satellite 320cdt with what toshiba call a "portable
> sound system", the only useful data i have is from the toshiba europe web
> site and refers to linux configuration and is as follows:
> i/o address 530h
> synthesiser 388h
> control 370h
> sbpro 220h
> mpu401 330h
> irq 5
> playback dma 1
> record dma 0
> 
> this is what i've got in the kernel configuration file
> controller snd0
> device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 conflicts
> device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 conflicts
> device sbmidi at isa? port 0x388 conflicts
> device opl0 port 0x388 conflicts
> 
> i know that i need device sbxvi0 and i have to include sbmidi when sbxvi is
> present otherwise the make process collapses.
> 
> this is what i find in /var/log/messages
> /kernel: sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa
> /kernel: snd0: <SoundBlaster Pro 3.1>
> /kernel: sbxvi not found
> /kernel: sbmidi0 not found at 0x388
> /kernel: opl0 at 0x388 on isa
> /kernel: snd0: <Yamaha OPL3 FM>

I didn't have any success with sbxvi when I was trying to get my sb16
running, mainly because my card uses dual 8-bit DMA, as does yours.

So I switched to the pcm device driver (which also supports sbpro) and
it's working fine for playback (I've never tried to record).

Richard.