Specifications

{
a=read(fil, b, 256);
write(fil, b, a);
}
}
6.37. Problems with IRQ 15 and Ensoniq PCI 128
From Matthew Inger ([e-mail]):
Information on getting an Ensoniq PCI 128 card to work.
The problem that it was exhibiting was that it was trying to use interrupt 15 by default (Plug and Pray was
responsible for this one). This interrupt is used by the secondary ide controller, and cannot be shared by other
devices. You need to somehow force the es1370 to use another interrupt (should use interrupt 11 like it does
under windows).
I figured this one out for myself believe it or not.
What I had to do was:
a) in the BIOS, you have to tell the computer that you don't have a Plug and Play OS. I believe this is under
advanced options in my BIOS.
b) in the PCI settings in the BIOS, tell the computer to reserve interrupt 15 for legacy ISA devices. In my
bios, under advanced options, there is a section for PCI settings. Under there, there is a Resource Exclusion
area, and that's where to do this.
When you reboot into linux you will be able to use sound. (I don't remember if it shows up in the boot
messages or not like it used to). To be safe, I ran sndconfig again so that it would play the test message,
which sounded not great, but it was there. When I played a CD however, it sounded perfect.
Don't worry about windows, I tried both my cards: ISA Modem, and the Sound Card out, and they work
without any hitches.
The odds are your BIOS will be different from mine, but you just have to figure out where the settings are for
the above two items. Good luck.
6.38. Where can I get freely available MIDI patches to run
SoftOSS?
SoftOSS is a software−based wavetable synthesizer included with the kernel sound driver that is compatible
with the Gravis Utrasound card. To operate the driver needs GUS compatible MIDI patch files. The
documentation mentions the "public domain MIDIA patchset available from several ftp sites". Note that
SoftOSS is no longer included as of the 2.4 kernels.
As explained on the 4Front Technologies web page http://www.opensound.com/softoss.html they can be
The Linux Sound HOWTO
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