uart numbers

[uNiHeX]

Hi again.
I have a (at least what Linux recognizes as a) VIA Technologies sound card. I think all I need is to get the uart number for a sound card. Would someone help me? What number identifies a card as sound?
I may need help with something else if this doens't work, but I don't want to confuse myself. I might just need help configuring artsd.

Thanks for all suggestions,


uni

[Paul Weaver]

AFAIK, UART numbers are for com ports. Do you perhaps mean IRQand I/O numbers??

UART numbers are something like 16550 or 8250 (IIRC).

IRQ's vary from 0 - 15

IO numbers are something along the lines of 0xd800

Is it a PCI sound card or ISA? Or onbaord?

[ille_pugil42]

if it's pci you can cat /proc/pci and look for your sound card in there, or isapnp will work if it's isa. post more details and we can get going.

[bugfix]

Yup, Paul Weavers right, the uart number refers to the speed of the COM ports, typically 16550 (up to 115kb/s) or 8250 (up to 14.4kb/s). If you're using 'drake/RH type 'sndconfig' to get your card working.

If its PCI and you're using SuSE I wish you luck - I ran out of patience and stuck in an old ISA one.

duggeB.

[uNiHeX]

I did mean uart numbers.
I looked at the man file for setserial and saw that uart could be one of about a dozen different numbers, so I assumed that PCI modems were 16550A (since that's what I used to get mine working) and sound cards are something different.
Am I completely wrong on this?
I know the I/O and IRQ for the card, because Linux recognizes its precense. I just need to know what to write after "uart" in the setserial command.

I don't know how much I'm confused, but I'm sure it's more than a little bit.

thanks,


uni


oops...sorry...it's an onboard card.

[This message has been edited by uNiHeX (edited 16 November 2000).]

[uNiHeX]

I'm thinking about just trying different numbers (16550 first) to see if that'll work. Maybe it will, maybe it won't, maybe I'll have to reinstall everything (another Saturday consumed).
Is this a bad idea? Could I trash my /dev/dsp just trying numbers? I really would hate to have to reinstall everything, so I don't want to do something irreversable, but I wish my sound card would work.

thx again

uni

[Confoozled]

Okay, first. Sound cards don't have a UART so you don't want a setting for it for the sound card. Since you're using setserial, it sounds like you are setting up the modem. Assuming you don't have a winmodem (very likely you do)if it's a newer modem it will be 16550A

[ille_pugil42]

Kind'f an echo in here...

AFIAK uart numbers are for com ports right? sound cards don't have com ports... so no need for uarts, right?

[Confoozled]

Right

[uNiHeX]

Okay, I saw the sound card in some graphical config (I think it was diskdrake), and I also saw the same thing in /proc/pci, but I looked on the VIA website, and it doens't look like they even make sound cards.
I'm not at home right now, so I don't have any of my stuff here.
I thought I'd be able to get my snd card working with setserial, but I guess not.
Anyway, I'll try sndconfig and hope that it recognizes the card right, which I don't think it has since it's telling me that it's made by VIA Technologies, and they don't even make sound cards.

grrrr...

[uNiHeX]

My phone lines weren't working when I got home last night, so I couldn't post this:
I tried running sndconfig (I have Mandrake 7.2) but it's not installed. I looked in a RH5.2 manual I have, and it said to run sndconfig, but, as I've already said, there's no sndconfig installed.
Is there another program that I'm able to run that will configure my sound card?

thanks



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[Paul Weaver]

Cant you get sndconfig from rpmfind.net? I'm afraid I think (cant remember) I used it with debian, so it should work.

[D-Termind]

Originally posted by uNiHeX:
I did mean uart numbers.
I looked at the man file for setserial and saw that uart could be one of about a dozen different numbers, so I assumed that PCI modems were 16550A (since that's what I used to get mine working) and sound cards are something different.
Am I completely wrong on this?
I know the I/O and IRQ for the card, because Linux recognizes its precense. I just need to know what to write after "uart" in the setserial command.

I don't know how much I'm confused, but I'm sure it's more than a little bit.

thanks,


uni


oops...sorry...it's an onboard card.

[This message has been edited by uNiHeX (edited 16 November 2000).]

Believe it or not I -DID- see UART in my Sounddblaster book, I'll take a look and see what it was.

LATER:

It just said that the MIDI was compatible with a MPU-401 UART....that's all.


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D-Termind

[This message has been edited by D-Termind (edited 19 November 2000).]