Creative SB AWE64 - how to activate
Bob McClure Jr
robertmcclure at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 29 15:48:46 UTC 2004
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:00:49AM -0400, Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> First a Big Thanks for the help when I swapped my
> Toshiba CDROM for a SONY CDRW
> where I appended my /boot/grub/grub.conf
> at the end of the kernel line I added ... hdc=ide-scsi
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> Now I want to activate my Sound Card (there was no need before)
> so doing my research and discovery I have tried the following
>
> My OS is Red Hat 9 with kernel-2.4.20-31.9
> and current with YUM as of Sep 26, 2004
>
> [root]# cat /proc/isapnp { it displays the following }
>
> Card 1 'CTL00c1:Creative SB AWE64 PnP' PnP version 1.0 Product version
> 1.0
>
> Logical device 0 'CTL0042:Audio'
> Device is active
> Active port 0x220,0x330,0x388
> Active IRQ 5 [0x2]
> Active DMA 1,5
>
> Logical device 1 'CTL7002:Game'
> Compatible device PNPb02f
> Device is not active
>
> Logical device 2 'CTL0022:WaveTable'
> Device is not active
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> when I look thru Red Hat MAIN MENU ->
> SYSTEM Tools ->
> HARDWARE BROWSER ->
> it displays the following:
>
> SOUND Cards -> Creative SB AWE64:Audio
> Creative SB AWE64:WaveTable
> Device Information:
> Manufacturer: Unknown
> Driver: SB
> and under
>
> Unknown Devices -> Creative SB AWE64 PnP:Game
> Device Information:
> Manufacturer: Unknown
> Driver: ns558
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> [root]# rpm -q sndconfig
> sndconfig-0.70-2
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> I was able to find the following on my system
>
> [root usr/sbin/sndconfig]#ls -al sndconfig
> sndconfig -> ../../sbin/sndconfig {a link}
>
> [root usr/share/sndconfig]#ls -al
> sample2.au {a file}
> sample.au {a file}
> sample.midi {a file}
>
> [root sbin]# ls -al sndconfig
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 263776 Feb 7 2003 sndconfig
>
> [root sbin]# sndconfig
> bash: sndconfig: command not found
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> So HOW can I activate my sound card???
>
> Chris Cz (still a Newbie)
How did you become root? If you did "su", you got root's identity but
not his environment, especially his PATH, so you can't execute stuff
in /sbin or /usr/sbin without specifying the full path,
e.g. /usr/sbin/sndconfig. If you do "su -", you will get root's
complete world including PATH, just as if you logged in as root to
begin with. "man su" for more info.
Cheers,
--
Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com
Grace happens.
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