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# 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

- 3.1 Things you will need
- 3.2 Getting started
- 3.3 Compiling the kernel
- 3.4 Reboot

## 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

- 5.1 `sfxload`
- 5.2 `drvmidi`

## 6. Appendix

- 6.1 Additional Information
- 6.2 Sources
- 6.3 Sample `isapnp.conf`

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