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Sound Blaster AWE 32/64 HOWTO

by Marcus Brinkmann < Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de >

v1.2, 11 January 1998

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This document describes how to install and configure a Sound Blaster 32 (SB AWE 32, SB AWE 64) card from Creative Labs in a Linux System using the AWE Sound Driver Extension written by Takashi Iwai. It also covers some special tools and players for the SB AWE series. Reference system is a Debian GNU/Linux System, but every other Linux Distribution should also work.

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1. Introduction

• 1.1 Acknowledgments
• 1.2 Revision History
• 1.3 New versions of this document
• 1.4 Feedback
• 1.5 Distribution Policy

2. Before you start

• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Some general notes about the SB AWE cards
• 2.3 Some general notes about the Plug and Play cards
• 2.4 Some general notes about loadable kernel modules
• 2.5 Some general notes about the kernel sound driver

3. How to install SB AWE sound support

• 3.1 Things you will need
• 3.2 Getting started
• 3.3 Compiling the kernel
• 3.4 Reboot

4. Testing the Sound Driver

• 4.1 /proc/devices, /dev/sndstat
• 4.2 Output - The Raw Audio Device
• 4.3 Output - The OPL-2/OPL-3 Synthesis
• 4.4 Output - The Wave Table Synthesis
• 4.5 Mixing
• 4.6 Input - Sampling with the Raw Audio Device
• 4.7 The MIDI Port

5. AWE Driver Software

• 5.1 sfxload
• 5.2 drvmidi

6. Appendix

• 6.1 Additional Information
• 6.2 Sources
• 6.3 Sample isapnp.conf

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