Sound Blaster AWE 32/64 HOWTO
by Marcus Brinkmann <
Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
v1.2, 11 January 1998
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.
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
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
6. Appendix
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