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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 1995 15:01:54 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   GUS woes
Message-ID:  <9503092001.AA12525@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9503091645.AA16577@olympus>
References:  <9503090840.AA26634@cobber.cord.edu> <9503091645.AA16577@olympus>

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<<On Thu, 9 Mar 1995 10:45:41 -0600 (CST), faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) said:

> I have a 512K gus with a different video card and scsi drives but otherwise
> match your configuration.  I rebuilt current last night and could play
> au files.  If I initialized the card with DOS, the volume was even loud.
> I tried the ultrasnd whatnow3.mod and it sounded great but there where
> "computer pops and cracks" interspersed with the music.  Volume control
> worked.  

I have a GUS MAX that I've been trying to get to work with no success
for the past few generations of the sound driver.  This may be because
my machine can't run DOS (and therefore Gravis' DOS initialization
program).  If it is to be of use to me, I need the card to work
without requiring DOS.  Can anyone with more experience in dealing
with these things comment?

BTW, the failure mode that I see is that, in playing an audio file,
the first second or three comes out just fine (but LOUD), and then
something gets stuck in an infinite loop playing the same sound over
and over again.  The play program gets stuck in an uninterruptible
wait in the audio driver (ick!).  Perhaps an IRQ register isn't
getting initialized right?

-GAWollman

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