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This is a regression from RH7.0 I have a Soundblaster AWE32 card. The RH7.0 soundconfig was able to set up MIDI fine. sndconfig in BETA3 fails to detect the MIDI capabilities of my card. There is an error reported from awe_wave.o: couldn't find AWE32 synth (or something along those lines). . Looking into this, the change that broke things seems to be ISA PNP support in the kernel driver. . The following insmod command fails insmod awe_wave.o However the following insmod command works fine insmod awe_wave.o isapnp=0
What does your /etc/modules.conf and /etc/isapnp.conf look like?
/etc/modules.conf follows (as we can see it is missing the isapnp=0 for awe_wave) --- alias eth0 3c59x alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias char-major-81 bttv alias usb-controller usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 sb options sound dmabuf=1 options opl3 io=0x388 alias midi awe_wave post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=6 mpu_io=0x330 --- Ooh - I do not seem to have a /etc/isapnp.conf. Is that bad? Should something have made one?
sndconfig technically should have, if it saw the PnP card as such. What happens if you do 'modprobe awe_wave isapnp=1', out of curiousity? What does /proc/isapnp look like?
Hmm.. I don't seem to have a /proc/isapnp I looked in the BIOS... ISAPnP disable. I turned it on, and still no /proc/isapnp . If I do the insmod you ask: .. AWE32: No ISAPnP cards found AWE32: not detected /lib/modules/2.4.0-0.99.11/kernel/drivers/sound/awe_wave.o: init_module: No such device . I guess this highlights the need to at least fallback on a non-ISAPnP attempt if the ISAPnP attempt fails. We don't want to regress from working RH7.0 functionality ;-)
Dumb question. Is it an ISAPnP card? Do you get any isapnp: messags when the kernel boots?
Don't know if it's PnP. The boot messages don't think so, but that could be because the BIOS is whacked. Who knows. .. isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found ... sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... SB 4.13 detected OK (220)
If/when you boot 2.2, does sndconfig probe for and find the card automatically? That would imply that it is PnP...
Like I said, RH7.0 sndconfig "just works" and sets up the digital and midi parts. I didn't think RH7.0 bothered with ISAPnP detection? I thought it just did "insmod awe_wave.o". This works in RH7.0 because the 2.2 driver doesn't have any isapnp code, just the non-isapnp detection routine. Perhaps the 2.4 awe_wave driver needs to fallback to non-isapnp like the plain soundblaster module seems to?
Yup, 7.0 does isapnp detection; if you don't get the 'No PnP or PCI sound cards have ...' dialog, that assumes it's an isapnp card. If you rebuild the kernel and turn off the kernel ISAPNP support, does the card suddenly show up if you run pnpdump?
Oh hang on In both RH7.0 and RH7.1 I get the "No ISAPnP or PCI cards detected". . So I manually pick AWE32/64 . The difference is that RH7.0 then happily finds the MIDI synth, RH7.1 does not. Looks like RH7.1 sndconfig is forgetting to use "isapnp=0" when it _knows_ it doesn't have a PnP card. . Does this make sense or are we talking at right angles?
Sort of. It's just there are reports of PnP cards spontaneously disappearing between 2.2 and 2.4. :)
The biggest problem with just adding isapnp=0 for non-PnP cards is that upgrades will still leave users with a broken config. Perhaps we can change the kernel to still do the old behavior with no parameters.
Works for me as expected in QA0401. Bill - you don't mind me closing this do you?
Sure, go ahead. it was fixed in the kernel.