4 Informations about Audio Excel DSP 16 driver can be found in the source
5 file lowlevel/aedsp16.c
6 Please, read the head of the source before using it. It contain useful
12 The Audio Excel configuration, is now done with the standard Linux setup.
13 You have to configure the sound card (Sound Blaster or Microsoft Sound System)
14 and, if you want it, the Roland MPU-401 (do not use the Sound Blaster MPU-401,
15 SB-MPU401) in the main driver menu. Activate the lowlevel drivers then select
16 the Audio Excel hardware that you want to initialize. Check the IRQ/DMA/MIRQ
17 of the Audio Excel initialization: it must be the same as the SBPRO (or MSS)
18 setup. If the parameters are different, correct it.
19 I you own a Gallant's audio card based on SC-6600, activate the SC-6600 support.
20 If you want to change the configuration of the sound board, be sure to
21 check off all the configuration items before re-configure it.
25 To use this driver as a module, you must configure some module parameters, to
26 set up I/O addresses, IRQ lines and DMA channels. Some parameters are
27 mandatory while some others are optional. Here a list of parameters you can
33 io I/O base address (0x220 or 0x240)
34 irq irq line (5, 7, 9, 10 or 11)
35 dma dma channel (0, 1 or 3)
38 mss_base I/O base address for activate MSS mode (default SBPRO)
40 mpu_base I/O base address for activate MPU-401 mode
41 (0x300, 0x310, 0x320 or 0x330)
42 mpu_irq MPU-401 irq line (5, 7, 9, 10 or 0)
44 The /etc/conf.modules will have a line like this:
46 options aedsp16 io=0x220 irq=10 dma=3 mss_base=0x530
48 Of course, you must write the 'options' for all other subsequent modules,
49 opl3, ad1848, adlib_card, sb
51 Then you must load the sound modules stack in this order:
52 sound -> aedsp16 -> [ ad1848, opl3 ]
56 This driver supports the SC-6000 and SC-6600 based Gallant's sound card.
57 It don't support the Audio Excel DSP 16 III (try the SC-6600 code).
58 I'm working on the III version of the card: if someone have useful
59 informations about it, please let me know.
60 For all the non-supported audio cards, you have to boot MS-DOS (or WIN95)
61 activating the audio card with the MS-DOS device driver, then you have to
62 <ctrl>-<alt>-<del> and boot Linux.
65 1) Compile Linux kernel with standard sound driver, using the emulation
66 you want, with the parameters of your audio card,
67 e.g. Microsoft Sound System irq10 dma3
68 2) Install your new kernel as the default boot kernel.
69 3) Boot MS-DOS and configure the audio card with the boot time device
70 driver, for MSS irq10 dma3 in our example.
71 4) <ctrl>-<alt>-<del> and boot Linux. This will mantain the DOS configuration
72 and will boot the new kernel with sound driver. The sound driver will find
73 the audio card and will recognize and attach it.
75 Reports on User successes
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94 Subject: Re: Audio Excel DSP 16 initialization code
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100 Just to let you know got my Audio Excel (emulating a MSS) working
101 with my original SB16, thanks for the driver!
105 Linux huey 2.0.9 #10 Sat Jul 27 11:41:42 BST 1996 i586)
106 Kernel: Linux huey 2.0.9 #14 Sun Jul 28 12:50:43 BST 1996 i586
107 Config options: c0202
110 Type 10: MS Sound System
111 Type 24: MS Sound System (AXP)
112 Type 27: Compaq Deskpro XL
113 Type 2: Sound Blaster
116 MS Sound System at 0x530 irq 11 drq 3
117 Sound Blaster at 0x240 irq 5 drq 1,5
120 0: MSS audio codec (CS4231A)
121 1: Sound Blaster 16 (4.12)
125 Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
129 1: MSS audio codec (CS4231A)
132 0: MSS audio codec (CS4231A)
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