Creative SB AWE not recording

Hi,

I'm new to this list, so apologies if this is old ground..

I have a Soundblaster AWE64 Gold from Creative Labs running on a SuSE 7.1
install. The card is half-working..

My overall aim is to record audio from line in and output to WAV file. The
documents that I've been working from are:

Takashi Iwai
http://mitglied.lycos.de/iwai/awedrv.html
Steve Crowder
http://www.dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/fe88/awe64config.shtml
Marcus Brinkman
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/Soundblaster-AWE-HOWTO.html

and also the Sound HOWTO. From watching the output of dmesg,
/var/log/messages and reading from /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports
everything seems ok (i.e. consistent with output from the above authors)
with one ommission--the output of /dev/sndstat says 'No such device'.

Functionally, the configuration lets me send output to the card--'cat
drumroll.au /dev/audio' plays a drum roll, but reading from input fails
using the command:

'dd bs=8k count=4 </dev/audio >sample.au'.

The config I'm using is based heavily on Steve Crowders document (more
below). How to explain the misconfiguration of /dev/sndstat..

Is it likely to be a kernel compilation issue?

Kernel is 2.4.19 and lsmod lists:

awe_wave              156160   0
sb                      7328   0
sb_lib                 33616   0  [sb]
uart401                 6096   0  [sb_lib]
sound                  55056   0  [awe_wave sb_lib uart401]

or an /etc/modules.conf issue

modules.conf has:

#*****************************************************************************
# Configuration to use Creative SB AWE64 Gold with PnP and OSS driver

alias char-major-14 sb
alias synth0 awe_wave
pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
alias sound-slot-0 sb
alias sound-service-0-0 sb
alias sound-service-0-3 sb

# end of sound
#*****************************************************************************

(alsa is installed but disabled in rc.config)

or somewhere else entirely, perhaps in the configuration for awelib
(awesfx-0.4.4). Or in the setup of /dev/sndstat, or perhaps sndstat is a
distraction and there's a simple problem such as zero volume coming from
line-in, or..

All clues will be pursued!


cheers
Gavin

-- 
Gavin Johnson <[email protected]>