Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:48:26 -0000 (GMT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: AWE 64 MIDI config -- Success Message-ID: <XFMail.971118204826.conrads@neosoft.com> In-Reply-To: <19971118203923.51363@ct.picker.com>
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On 19-Nov-97 Randall Hopper wrote: > Conrad Sabatier: > |On 18-Nov-97 Luigi Rizzo wrote: > |> > |> as i already posted yesterday, the docs from the Linux support for the > |> AWExx say that the card actually uses three (3) addresses, which are > |> (going from memory here) 0x620, 0xa20, 0xe20. You have to set all three > |> in your PnP config menu otherwise the proba fails. > | > |Yes, YES, *YES*! That was it! I was only configuring the base AWE address > |(0x620) before. Finally, I now have a fully functioning AWE64 working > |under FreeBSD! Drvmidi works! Sounds great, too! Joy! Rapture! > | > |Thank you so much, Luigi and Randall! > > Hey, cool! Most thanks to Luigi for his PnP code. Indeed! > If you'll take a minute to write up just what you did (driver > versions/URLs, relevent kernel config file blurbs, FreeBSD version used, > kernel patches, etc.), I will put a link to this off the AWEDRV home page. > > You may not "how _many_" SB32/AWE32/AWE64*PnP owners have posted to the > lists or mailed me in recent months about getting past the PnP problems > (lots). > > All would find your instructions _very_ helpful! For sure! See my followup to Amancio's request for the same, where I posted in detail what I did. > Have fun! I am! :-) > Randall > > P.S. Now, in case you don't have some, you'll want some larger MIDI > soundfonts to stuff in your wavetable mem that'll make it sound even > better! > > For some that'll fit in 1M, 2M, and 8M, respectively, check out: > > http://www.lysator.liu.se/awe/ > > in particular: > > http://www.edu.isy.liu.se/~d93jesno/sfindex.html > > under the "Other" section. Having 2M of mem myself, I have this in > my /etc/rc.local to load the second one (guit_gm.sbk): > > nice -20 sfxload -i -V 100 /opt/pkg/awedrv/lib/guit_gm.sbk & > > so the wavetable is primed and ready for MIDIs :-) :-( I still only have the default 512K on mine. :-( Is upgrading fairly cheap? > P.S.S. Wanna a .tgz of a bunch of cool MIDI files? Sure! Send 'em over! :-) Damn, this is exciting! :-) -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads And the Deep Thought of the Day (tm) is: Laetrile is the pits
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