Bug 5824

Summary: EMU8000 usable without SB?
Product: Drivers Reporter: Andrew J. Kroll (a)
Component: Sound(ALSA)Assignee: Jaroslav Kysela (perex)
Status: RESOLVED WILL_NOT_FIX    
Severity: low CC: akpm, alan, bunk, perex, protasnb, tiwai
Priority: P2    
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.x Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:

Description Andrew J. Kroll 2006-01-04 09:03:16 UTC 
Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: 2.4 series
Distribution: any
Hardware Environment: x86
Software Environment: n/a
Problem Description:

EMU8000 is available on a seperate card, thus should not depend on SB drivers to
be loaded. The card is CT1920, which is considered an AWE32 Upgrade card,
however I have always used it just for midi alone.

Steps to reproduce:
Try to load the driver without any SB (or compatable) card.
Comment 1 Takashi Iwai 2006-01-05 03:12:37 UTC 
How can it be accessed?
Comment 2 Andrew J. Kroll 2006-01-05 13:02:58 UTC 
CT-1920 provides midi only, so I've always just used it thru /dev/sequencer and
friends. On 2.2.x the modules loaded are as follows:

awe_wave              155856   0 
sound                  55856   0  [awe_wave]
soundlow                 384   0  [sound]
es1371                 29488   1 
soundcore               2548   8  [sound es1371]

Notice that the es1371 is a PCI device, not ISA, and not PNP...
Also, it's enabled with the depreciated ISAPNP toolset, which enables the card.

Here is what it looks like from 'cat /dev/sndstat':

OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux my.apartment 2.2.17-ide-mem-cd-agp-tcp-floppy #43 SMP Wed Mar 12
19:16:39 EST 2003 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers: 

Card config: 

Audio devices:

Synth devices:
0: AWE32-0.4.3 (RAM8192k)

Midi devices:
1: AWE Midi Emu

Timers:
0: System clock

Mixers:


Hope this helps clear up any misunderstandings.
Comment 3 Takashi Iwai 2006-01-31 02:29:14 UTC 
Does the device have a proper ISA PnP entry?  If so, I'll need it.
Comment 4 Andrew J. Kroll 2006-02-07 02:21:39 UTC 
It does have one in 2.4 that is distributed with debian, and it even knows about
the i/o port quirk.

I hope that answeres the question...
Comment 5 Andrew Morton 2007-01-30 23:58:30 UTC 
Andrew, did this end up getting resolved?
Comment 6 Andrew J. Kroll 2007-01-31 00:55:56 UTC 
I still do not see a listing for it by it'sself in the configuration, 
therefore I can make an educated guess that the support of the standalone 
CT1920 card has not been resolved yet...
Comment 7 Natalie Protasevich 2007-06-16 11:57:32 UTC 
Any updates on the problem?
Thanks.
Comment 8 Andrew J. Kroll 2007-09-16 16:44:46 UTC 
None that I have seen... Would be nice to use midi with a fairly modern kernel, you know...
Comment 9 Alan 2009-07-20 14:13:28 UTC 
Closing: No activity since 2007