1Documentation for the ESS1868F AudioDrive PnP sound card
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3The ESS1868 sound card is a PnP ESS1688-compatible 16-bit sound card.
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5It should be automatically detected by the Linux Kernel isapnp support when you
6load the sb.o module. Otherwise you should take care of:
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8  *  The ESS1868 does not allow use of a 16-bit DMA, thus DMA 0, 1, 2, and 3
9     may only be used.
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11  *  isapnptools version 1.14 does work with ESS1868.  Earlier versions might
12     not.
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14  *  Sound support MUST be compiled as MODULES, not statically linked
15     into the kernel.
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18NOTE: this is only needed when not using the kernel isapnp support!
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20For configuring the sound card's I/O addresses, IRQ and DMA, here is a
21sample copy of the isapnp.conf directives regarding the ESS1868:
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23(CONFIGURE ESS1868/-1 (LD 1
24(IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))
25(IO 1 (BASE 0x0388))
26(IO 2 (BASE 0x0330))
27(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
28(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
29(ACT Y)
30))
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32(for a full working isapnp.conf file, remember the
33(ISOLATE)
34(IDENTIFY *)
35at the beginning and the
36(WAITFORKEY)
37at the end.)
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39In this setup, the main card I/O is 0x0220, FM synthesizer is 0x0388, and
40the MPU-401 MIDI port is located at 0x0330.  IRQ is IRQ 5, DMA is channel 1.
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42After configuring the sound card via isapnp, to use the card you must load
43the sound modules with the proper I/O information.  Here is my setup:
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45# ESS1868F AudioDrive initialization
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47/sbin/modprobe sound
48/sbin/insmod uart401
49/sbin/insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1
50/sbin/insmod mpu401 io=0x330
51/sbin/insmod opl3 io=0x388
52/sbin/insmod v_midi
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54opl3 is the FM synthesizer
55/sbin/insmod opl3 io=0x388
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