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Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64
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5 20037 06-17-2005
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Description: Sound Blaster AWE64 16-bit sound card with Soundfont 2.1 support
OEM version
Keywords: Soundblaster AWE AWE64 creative labs
Chipset: EMU 8000
Connection Type: ISA


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Old 03-05-2004, 04:59 PM   #1
SteveK1979
 
Registered: Feb 2004
Distribution: RHEL5, Solaris 10/11, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD
Posts: 206

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Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.21-192-default
Distribution: SuSE 9.0



Soundcard installed with no problems when installing SuSE 9.0 using the YaST2 setup utility to configure the system.
The Plug and Play isa card was autodetected and the driver/kernal module snd-sbawe loaded and appears to operate the card without any problems whatsoever. I have not tested the operation of soundfonts under linux.
 
Old 08-30-2004, 07:07 PM   #2
WMD
 
Registered: Jul 2004
Distribution: Slackware, Debian
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.24
Distribution: Slackware


I actually have the AWE32, but I feel I should make an important point:

The AWE64 is exactly the same hardware as the AWE32. The second set of voices (33-64) were made to work via a software driver. Therefore, an AWE64 in Linux will work as if it were an AWE32. Kind of like Winmodems for sound :(
 
Old 12-07-2004, 10:55 PM   #3
Smartcat99S
 
Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: Arch Linux, SUSE, Gentoo
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6*
Distribution: SUSE 8.2-9.1


SUSE, doesn't work well (still not working)
Works elsewhere
 
Old 01-04-2005, 12:40 PM   #4
ValidiusMaximus
 
Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Debian Sarge
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.10, 2.4.27
Distribution: Debian Sid


I love it. Niver given me a single problem. Without a doubt the best all arround ISA soundcard ever. I HIGHLY recommend it.
 
Old 06-17-2005, 09:37 PM   #5
Chuckinator
 
Registered: Feb 2005
Distribution: Gentoo
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11.12
Distribution: Gentoo


Card works perfectly with alsa 1.0.9. In order to play midi files, I copied the SYNTHGM.SBK file from the driver cd and ran

asfxload SYNTHGM.SBK

and turned up the synth levels in alsamixer. Also, I had to temporarily disable acpi in order for alsaconf to detect the card.
 




  



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