| Pro Audio Spectrum 16 for 2.3.99 and later |
| ========================================= |
| by Thomas Molina (tmolina@home.com) |
| last modified 3 Mar 2001 |
| Acknowledgement to Axel Boldt (boldt@math.ucsb.edu) for stuff taken |
| from Configure.help, Riccardo Facchetti for stuff from README.OSS, |
| and others whose names I could not find. |
| |
| This documentation is relevant for the PAS16 driver (pas2_card.c and |
| friends) under kernel version 2.3.99 and later. If you are |
| unfamiliar with configuring sound under Linux, please read the |
| Sound-HOWTO, Documentation/sound/oss/Introduction and other |
| relevant docs first. |
| |
| The following information is relevant information from README.OSS |
| and legacy docs for the Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (PAS16): |
| ================================================================== |
| |
| The pas2_card.c driver supports the following cards -- |
| Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (PAS16) and compatibles: |
| Pro Audio Spectrum 16 |
| Pro Audio Studio 16 |
| Logitech Sound Man 16 |
| NOTE! The original Pro Audio Spectrum as well as the PAS+ are not |
| and will not be supported by the driver. |
| |
| The sound driver configuration dialog |
| ------------------------------------- |
| |
| Sound configuration starts by making some yes/no questions. Be careful |
| when answering to these questions since answering y to a question may |
| prevent some later ones from being asked. For example don't answer y to |
| the question about (PAS16) if you don't really have a PAS16. Sound |
| configuration may also be made modular by answering m to configuration |
| options presented. |
| |
| Note also that all questions may not be asked. The configuration program |
| may disable some questions depending on the earlier choices. It may also |
| select some options automatically as well. |
| |
| "ProAudioSpectrum 16 support", |
| - Answer 'y'_ONLY_ if you have a Pro Audio Spectrum _16_, |
| Pro Audio Studio 16 or Logitech SoundMan 16 (be sure that |
| you read the above list correctly). Don't answer 'y' if you |
| have some other card made by Media Vision or Logitech since they |
| are not PAS16 compatible. |
| NOTE! Since 3.5-beta10 you need to enable SB support (next question) |
| if you want to use the SB emulation of PAS16. It's also possible to |
| the emulation if you want to use a true SB card together with PAS16 |
| (there is another question about this that is asked later). |
| |
| "Generic OPL2/OPL3 FM synthesizer support", |
| - Answer 'y' if your card has a FM chip made by Yamaha (OPL2/OPL3/OPL4). |
| The PAS16 has an OPL3-compatible FM chip. |
| |
| With PAS16 you can use two audio device files at the same time. /dev/dsp (and |
| /dev/audio) is connected to the 8/16 bit native codec and the /dev/dsp1 (and |
| /dev/audio1) is connected to the SB emulation (8 bit mono only). |
| |
| |
| The new stuff for 2.3.99 and later |
| ============================================================================ |
| The following configuration options from Documentation/Configure.help |
| are relevant to configuring the PAS16: |
| |
| Sound card support |
| CONFIG_SOUND |
| If you have a sound card in your computer, i.e. if it can say more |
| than an occasional beep, say Y. Be sure to have all the information |
| about your sound card and its configuration down (I/O port, |
| interrupt and DMA channel), because you will be asked for it. |
| |
| You want to read the Sound-HOWTO, available from |
| http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto . General information |
| about the modular sound system is contained in the files |
| Documentation/sound/oss/Introduction. The file |
| Documentation/sound/oss/README.OSS contains some slightly outdated but |
| still useful information as well. |
| |
| OSS sound modules |
| CONFIG_SOUND_OSS |
| OSS is the Open Sound System suite of sound card drivers. They make |
| sound programming easier since they provide a common API. Say Y or M |
| here (the module will be called sound.o) if you haven't found a |
| driver for your sound card above, then pick your driver from the |
| list below. |
| |
| Persistent DMA buffers |
| CONFIG_SOUND_DMAP |
| Linux can often have problems allocating DMA buffers for ISA sound |
| cards on machines with more than 16MB of RAM. This is because ISA |
| DMA buffers must exist below the 16MB boundary and it is quite |
| possible that a large enough free block in this region cannot be |
| found after the machine has been running for a while. If you say Y |
| here the DMA buffers (64Kb) will be allocated at boot time and kept |
| until the shutdown. This option is only useful if you said Y to |
| "OSS sound modules", above. If you said M to "OSS sound modules" |
| then you can get the persistent DMA buffer functionality by passing |
| the command-line argument "dmabuf=1" to the sound.o module. |
| |
| Say y here for PAS16. |
| |
| ProAudioSpectrum 16 support |
| CONFIG_SOUND_PAS |
| Answer Y only if you have a Pro Audio Spectrum 16, ProAudio Studio |
| 16 or Logitech SoundMan 16 sound card. Don't answer Y if you have |
| some other card made by Media Vision or Logitech since they are not |
| PAS16 compatible. It is not necessary to enable the separate |
| Sound Blaster support; it is included in the PAS driver. |
| |
| If you compile the driver into the kernel, you have to add |
| "pas2=<io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<sbio>,<sbirq>,<sbdma>,<sbdma2> |
| to the kernel command line. |
| |
| FM Synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support |
| CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812 |
| Answer Y if your card has a FM chip made by Yamaha (OPL2/OPL3/OPL4). |
| Answering Y is usually a safe and recommended choice, however some |
| cards may have software (TSR) FM emulation. Enabling FM support with |
| these cards may cause trouble (I don't currently know of any such |
| cards, however). |
| Please read the file Documentation/sound/oss/OPL3 if your card has an |
| OPL3 chip. |
| If you compile the driver into the kernel, you have to add |
| "opl3=<io>" to the kernel command line. |
| |
| If you compile your drivers into the kernel, you MUST configure |
| OPL3 support as a module for PAS16 support to work properly. |
| You can then get OPL3 functionality by issuing the command: |
| insmod opl3 |
| In addition, you must either add the following line to |
| /etc/modprobe.conf: |
| options opl3 io=0x388 |
| or else add the following line to /etc/lilo.conf: |
| opl3=0x388 |
| |
| |
| EXAMPLES |
| =================================================================== |
| To use the PAS16 in my computer I have enabled the following sound |
| configuration options: |
| |
| CONFIG_SOUND=y |
| CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=y |
| CONFIG_SOUND_TRACEINIT=y |
| CONFIG_SOUND_DMAP=y |
| CONFIG_SOUND_PAS=y |
| CONFIG_SOUND_SB=n |
| CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m |
| |
| I have also included the following append line in /etc/lilo.conf: |
| append="pas2=0x388,10,3,-1,0x220,5,1,-1 sb=0x220,5,1,-1 opl3=0x388" |
| |
| The io address of 0x388 is default configuration on the PAS16. The |
| irq of 10 and dma of 3 may not match your installation. The above |
| configuration enables PAS16, 8-bit Soundblaster and OPL3 |
| functionality. If Soundblaster functionality is not desired, the |
| following line would be appropriate: |
| append="pas2=0x388,10,3,-1,0,-1,-1,-1 opl3=0x388" |
| |
| If sound is built totally modular, the above options may be |
| specified in /etc/modprobe.conf for pas2, sb and opl3 |
| respectively. |