[ale] Sound Blaster 16 WavEffects

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Glenn,

Try '(ISOLATE CLEAR)' instead of (ISOLATE).  I just spend a day
dorking around with a very similar device!

-Eric.

Glenn C. Lasher Jr. writes:
 > 
 > Well, like most emails posted here with a piece of hardware as the subject
 > line, it ain't workin'.
 > 
 > For Christmas, I was given this card, it is supposed to be a Plug N Play
 > card, so I have installed isapnptools on my system.  I have tweaked,
 > poked, prodded, and even aattempted beggin and cajoling to try to get the
 > system to say something, *anything* about this card. 
 > 
 > If I have this isapnp.conf file:
 > 
 > (ISOLATE)
 > (IDENTIFY *)
 > 
 > ...then I get the following response out of isapnp:
 > 
 > Board 1 has Identity 6d ff ff ff ff f0 00 8c 0e:  CTL00f0 Serial No
 > 4294967295 [checksum 6d]
 > 
 > ...but if I add to it the following:
 > 
 > (CONFIGURE CTL00f0/4294967295
 >   (LD 0
 >     (IO 0 (BASE 0x220))
 >     (INT 0 (IRQ 5))
 >     (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
 >     (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
 >   ))
 > 
 > ...then I get this response:
 > 
 > Board CTL00f0/4294967295 not found
 > Error occurred executing request 'CONFIGURE CTL00f0/4294967295' on or
 > around line 3 --- further action aborted
 > 
 > ... Now DID it, or did it NOT, just tell me that there is a board, A
 > CTL00f0 (in that case, even) with serial number 4294967295?!?  Isn't that
 > board therefore referred to as CTL00f0/4294967295 on a CONFIGURE
 > statement?
 > 
 > Here is a further piece to the puzzle:
 > 
 > pnpdump occasionally returns a result with all of the "stuff" for this
 > board.  I have never been so lucky as to capture this information where I
 > can use it.  Getting this result from pnpdump appears to be unrepeatable,
 > more frequently, I get a litany of all of the ports it tries followed by:
 > 
 > # No boards found
 > 
 > Here is further information:
 > 
 > My system is running Slackware 3.3, and I have upgraded the kernel to
 > 2.0.35.  I previously had a sound card (a Sound Blaster Pro) which was a
 > non-plug-and-play card.  I have edited this out of the kernel and compiled
 > a new kernel with SB16 support as a module, so this is not interfering
 > with isapnp's workings.
 > 
 > HELP!!!
 > 
 > Many thanks.
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