I don't know if it will help or not, but there is a program called setcrystal that is included with the soundmodem utilities by Thomas Salier. You can get to his home page at http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/. The program initializes the PnP card for WSS (many OPTi cards) or SB PnP. His software was written to allow the use of amateur packet radio over a soundcard instead of the TNC usually required.
It looks to me as if there are two issues - does the kernel support the card and how do I set up the card. Isuspect if you compile the kernel for MAD 16 support, you will need to set the card up with a utility like setcrystal before loading the kernel sound driver. Good Luck Pat Ouellette ---------- From: NeuTroN Sent: Monday, February 02, 1998 6:42 AM To: Antonio Doldo Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sound Card Opti 931 On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Antonio Doldo wrote: > NeuTroN wrote: > > > > I recently bought a system (Intel Pentium, 166 MMX) and it has a Sound > > Card that seems to be an OPTi 82C931. (At least that is how the > > software in DOS sees it and how Win95 detects it.) I guess Trust > > Computer Products resells OPTi sound cards, because There is an (extra) > > Trust label on the installation disks for Win(3.11/95). When I configure > > the kernel for normal sound blaster, 16 bits audio doesn't work. Well > > then, why not compile it for MAD16? After doing that, it didn't work at > > all. > > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/drivers/sound/mad16.c seems to support cards > > up to 82C930. Does anyone have suggestions? > > Thanx! > > > > Maarten Bezemer > [snip] > I have a OPTi 82C924 and found a little solution: > compile the kernel for SB and launch the 'linux.bat' from a dos > partition > (or a floppy dos) > in the 'linux.bat' set the environment: > SET MUSIC16=C:\MUSIC16 > C:\MUSIC16\SNDINIT /B > C:\LINUX\LOADLIN.EXE zImage root=/dev/hdb1 ro [snip] I have done something like this (my directory for sndinit is c:\opti931), and there is something that works in Linux. I recompiled kernel 2.0.30 for SB and MPU. Now 8-bit audio does work, Wavetable-Midi also, but 16-bit audio files (demo.wav with bplay for example) gives garbage out of the speakers. Does anyone know where I can find a mad16.c that does support OPTi 82C931 sound cards? As far as I know 2.0.32 still supports up to 82C930. Can ayone help me? Maarten Bezemer Holland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
