I download the OSS driver package from OSS...twice. I chose the 2.0X "flavor" as I assumed it would work with SuSE 5.2. NO listing is given for SuSE...why is beyond me. Anyway, the *.gz file will NOT unzip. It's frustrating enough to have a new "box" with a AWE-64 in and not get any sound. It's much worse to be trying to understand Linux and work with a lame file all at the same time. Does anyone have this file uncorrupted, that they wouldn't mind file attaching? Thanks, Fred -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Maybe it's bzipped? Run 'file' on it to see what type of file it is to make sure it really is damaged etc. Some times files are bzipped and not gunzipped and you can't tell till you query. On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Fred A. Miller wrote:
I download the OSS driver package from OSS...twice. I chose the 2.0X "flavor" as I assumed it would work with SuSE 5.2. NO listing is given for SuSE...why is beyond me. Anyway, the *.gz file will NOT unzip. It's frustrating enough to have a new "box" with a AWE-64 in and not get any sound. It's much worse to be trying to understand Linux and work with a lame file all at the same time. Does anyone have this file uncorrupted, that they wouldn't mind file attaching?
Thanks,
Fred
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bzip2 files have a .bz2 extension as opposed to .tgz or .gz hekate@intergate.bc.ca wrote:
Maybe it's bzipped? Run 'file' on it to see what type of file it is to make sure it really is damaged etc. Some times files are bzipped and not gunzipped and you can't tell till you query.
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Thanks to someone on the list, I now have a "good" file, however, oss-install won't run. I get "command not found." Wonderfull. I'm not ready to go back to NT........yet. Fred hekate@intergate.bc.ca wrote:
Maybe it's bzipped? Run 'file' on it to see what type of file it is to make sure it really is damaged etc. Some times files are bzipped and not gunzipped and you can't tell till you query.
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Fred A. Miller wrote:
I download the OSS driver package from OSS...twice. I chose the 2.0X "flavor" as I assumed it would work with SuSE 5.2. NO listing is given for SuSE...why is beyond me. Anyway, the *.gz file will NOT unzip. It's frustrating enough to have a new "box" with a AWE-64 in and not get any sound. It's much worse to be trying to understand Linux and work with a lame file all at the same time. Does anyone have this file uncorrupted, that they wouldn't mind file attaching?
Thanks,
Fred
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Fred A. Miller wrote:
Thanks to someone on the list, I now have a "good" file, however, oss-install won't run. I get "command not found." Wonderfull. I'm not ready to go back to NT........yet.
Ok, When downloading from Netscape tryholding your left shift button and then clicking on the file. Next: OSS/Linux(20bucks) well after uncomressing it tar xzvf oss-linux-blah.blah.tar.gz you will get 3 or 4 files one is called oss-install type this without the quotes "./oss-install" if it comes up with sound driver error can not install cause of sound module already loaded or something like then type "rmmod sound" and wait like a minute or so and type "lsmod" to see if its still loaded then go back and do an "./oss-install" then you should be ok But if you got a SB-64GOLD or AWE (isa/pnp) then you should really think about compiling sound as a module from compiling the Linux kernel. Steven Udell hettar@teleport.com btw- SuSE put up Kernel 2.0.34 on its ftp site ;) -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Steven Udell wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
Thanks to someone on the list, I now have a "good" file, however, oss-install won't run. I get "command not found." Wonderfull. I'm not ready to go back to NT........yet.
Ok,
When downloading from Netscape tryholding your left shift button and then clicking on the file.
Next: OSS/Linux(20bucks) well after uncomressing it tar xzvf oss-linux-blah.blah.tar.gz you will get 3 or 4 files one is called oss-install type this without the quotes "./oss-install" if it comes up with sound driver error can not install cause of sound module already loaded or something like then type "rmmod sound" and wait like a minute or so and type "lsmod" to see if its still loaded then go back and do an "./oss-install" then you should be ok
But if you got a SB-64GOLD or AWE (isa/pnp) then you should really think about compiling sound as a module from compiling the Linux kernel.
I have the AWE64....OSS drivers seem to work very well now. Thanks! Fred -- Fred A. Miller, Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fmiller@lightlink.com fm@cupserv.org -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Fred A. Miller wrote:
I download the OSS driver package from OSS...twice. I chose the 2.0X "flavor" as I assumed it would work with SuSE 5.2. NO listing is given for SuSE...why is beyond me. Anyway, the *.gz file will NOT unzip. It's frustrating enough to have a new "box" with a AWE-64 in and not get any sound. It's much worse to be trying to understand Linux and work with a lame file all at the same time. Does anyone have this file uncorrupted, that they wouldn't mind file attaching?
Thanks,
Fred
Fred, AWE-64 SBs are suported natively in Linux Take a look at this its very simple to follow, will take you about 30 minutes after you have compiled your kernel for sound support as a module. here: <A HREF="http://cqi.com/~humbubba/linux/AWE-kernhelp.txt"><A HREF="http://cqi.com/~humbubba/linux/AWE-kernhelp.txt</A">http://cqi.com/~humbubba/linux/AWE-kernhelp.txt</A</A>> Sounds better than the 20doller OSS does......and all sound works I do have a SoundBlaster AWE 64 Gold, and that above link was just for the SB 64 AWE...but never the less it was exact for my card..and should be for yours. When doing the isapnp dump to /etc/isapnp.conf, bring it up and save it to a isapnp.conf.backup then grab the isapnp.conf example on that link above and open up two editors and move the cards ID numbers and a few things that will be different that the example's card..then save the modified to /etc/isapnp.conf and test it...easy.... Steve Udell -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
I have set up awe32 and awe64 cards in linux, and they work just fine with the kernel drivers and isapnp. Like I've said before, OSS is nice if your card is unsupported by the kernel drivers or if spending $20 for your sound drivers psychologically makes you think things sound better. BTW, the registration key for OSS is easy enough to find on the web if you believe that commercial linux software is an oxymoron. Steven Udell wrote:
Fred, AWE-64 SBs are suported natively in Linux
Take a look at this its very simple to follow, will take you about 30 minutes after you have compiled your kernel for sound support as a module.
here: <A HREF="http://cqi.com/~humbubba/linux/AWE-kernhelp.txt"><A HREF="http://cqi.com/~humbubba/linux/AWE-kernhelp.txt</A">http://cqi.com/~humbubba/linux/AWE-kernhelp.txt</A</A>>
Sounds better than the 20doller OSS does......and all sound works
I do have a SoundBlaster AWE 64 Gold, and that above link was just for the SB 64 AWE...but never the less it was exact for my card..and should be for yours.
When doing the isapnp dump to /etc/isapnp.conf, bring it up and save it to a isapnp.conf.backup then grab the isapnp.conf example on that link above and open up two editors and move the cards ID numbers and a few things that will be different that the example's card..then save the modified to /etc/isapnp.conf and test it...easy....
Steve Udell
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Michael Lankton wrote:
I have set up awe32 and awe64 cards in linux, and they work just fine with the kernel drivers and isapnp.
The ensoniq is a pci card, so we don't have that option
Like I've said before, OSS is nice if your card is unsupported by the kernel drivers or if spending $20 for your sound drivers psychologically makes you think things sound better. BTW, the registration key for OSS is easy enough to find on the web if you believe that commercial linux software is an oxymoron.
I don't think it is, and $20 isn't too much to pay for good working sound, other than hearing the speaker on the case beep. Commercial software is just discovering linux, such as corel making a wordperfect version for linux, and if the linux community is to keep those such companies there, it won't be by ripping off their products just to save some money. I, for one, have recently discovered linux, and I would like to keep it as my preferred platform, but if the commercial sector moves out, never to come back, then I do believe that would be a sad day, because with the commercial names, it is only logical that linux will grow expontentially, there will be more tools for it, and it will one day be easy for the novice computer user to just turn on their computer and play away. Also, if you are opposed to microsoft's business tactics in keeping linux out of the mainstream, then commercial software will help us defeat the evil empire. Bill said "You don't have to use windows 95." Well, it is up to the linux users of the world to show bill's sheep there is a viable option, and they want to know that the same software will be available in linux that they currently have in windows. just a little point/counterpoint, nothing more. -- Aaron Seelye <A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto"><A HREF="http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto</A">http://revolution.3-cities.com/~roberto</A</A>> -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Aaron Seelye wrote:
Michael Lankton wrote:
I have set up awe32 and awe64 cards in linux, and they work just fine with the kernel drivers and isapnp.
The ensoniq is a pci card, so we don't have that option
The thread I was responding to was re. an awe64.
I don't think it is, and $20 isn't too much to pay for good working sound, other than hearing the speaker on the case beep. Commercial software is just discovering linux, such as corel making a wordperfect version for linux, and if the linux community is to keep those such companies there, it won't be by ripping off their products just to save some money. I, for one, have recently discovered linux, and I would like to keep it as my preferred platform, but if the commercial sector moves out, never to come back, then I do believe that would be a sad day,
Commercial software producers haven't embraced linux at all. There is very little in the way of commercial software. There are free offerings from commercial software developers, like netscape, acroread, etc, but there is little in the way of commercial software. Would I pay for something I could use in another os for free? No. Would I pay for an office suite like applix or word perfect when I can download and use Staroffice for free? No. And the fact is, the linux community at large has a gnu mentality. There will always be a tendency to adopt free over commercial software. I have no problem buying software that I feel represents a good value. I buy SuSE at $40, 3 times a year, because I think it's the best distribution there is. I spend over a thousand dollars a year on pc and console games. I buy software I need to use for school instead of telnetting to my shell at school and using the school's software. I buy A LOT of software. I just don't understand why people like oss are charging for something that should be free. Do you pay for your sound drivers in nt? No. I understand that oss is providing a service that the sound card manufacturer's aren't, and that they have the right to seek compensation for their work and you have the right to be happy to give them your money and I have the right to feel that it should be free software.
Also, if you are opposed to microsoft's business tactics in keeping linux out of the mainstream, then commercial software will help us defeat the evil empire. Bill said "You don't have to use windows 95."
I have never taken the position that I hate microsoft or their os'es. I think they make an inferior os, I much prefer unix, but I dual boot win95 and there are a lot of apps that I like. Bill doesn't care what os you use. Microsoft os'es are installed on +900f home computers manufactured, and that won't change in his lifetime. Frankly I don't understand the whole "us against them" mindset. I use linux, I love linux. Actually I love unix, and linux just happens to be a flavor that is easy to run on my home box. I use OSF1 all day at school, and it's nice to have a similar (actually, superior) environment to come home to. I don't care what os anyone else uses, and most of the brain deads out there can't point and click their way past the windows desktop, much less use linux. I don't know that linux has to change directions at all. It seems to me to be thriving, and people like the Gnome project, kde, and Redhat are doing their part to make it more accessible to Joe Pc User. That will only increase the momentum, and the population of the community. Sheesh, sorry for the long post -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Aaron Seelye wrote: [snip]
Also, if you are opposed to microsoft's business tactics in keeping linux out of the mainstream, then commercial software will help us defeat the evil empire. Bill said "You don't have to use windows 95." Well, it is up to the linux users of the world to show bill's sheep there is a viable option, and they want to know that the same software will be available in linux that they currently have in windows.
just a little point/counterpoint, nothing more.
And, the best written in some time.<g> SuSE and other providers of Linux are all going in the same direction. Linux has the potential to be THE OS....period!!! Yes, there are some who'd just as soon keep it a secret...too bad. The secret is "out." Linux DESERVES to the the OS for everyone....those who don't want to know anything about it, and those who like to muck around at the kernel. The more support it gets from ALL "directions" the better. Best, Fred -- Fred A. Miller, Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fmiller@lightlink.com fm@cupserv.org -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Steven Udell wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
I download the OSS driver package from OSS...twice. I chose the 2.0X "flavor" as I assumed it would work with SuSE 5.2. NO listing is given for SuSE...why is beyond me. Anyway, the *.gz file will NOT unzip. It's frustrating enough to have a new "box" with a AWE-64 in and not get any sound. It's much worse to be trying to understand Linux and work with a lame file all at the same time. Does anyone have this file uncorrupted, that they wouldn't mind file attaching?
Thanks,
Fred
Fred, AWE-64 SBs are suported natively in Linux
Take a look at this its very simple to follow, will take you about 30 minutes after you have compiled your kernel for sound support as a module.
[snip] I looked at it the other day, printed it out, went to get the files, and they came into Netscape Nav. as a read-in file...i.e., NOT a file saved to a dir. When setting up a sound card takes an "act of Congress," then...... Fred -- Fred A. Miller, Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fmiller@lightlink.com fm@cupserv.org -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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