From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Oct 25 01:14:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA17135 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:14:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA17129 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id HAA17269; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 07:18:20 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199810250618.HAA17269@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Does my SB128(PCI) work? To: ckempf@enigami.com (Cory Kempf) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 07:18:19 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Cory Kempf" at Oct 24, 98 08:12:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > OK, I know the subject sounds strange. > > I have a system running 3.0-current as of a couple hours ago. The > motherboard is an Intel DK440LX, which has a built in sound card that > doesn't seem to work. Sound comes out, but doesn't seem to want to go > in at an audiable volume. I tested the Mic on another system, it Have you tried the "pcm" driver ? > I finally decided that perhaps the sound drivers on the motherboard > were hosed, and to just buy a sound blaster board. So I now have a SB > 128, which is the only PCI card there. brilliant. Just reading the various docs/mailing lists about audio would have told you that SB cards are badly supported and audio PCI devices are not supported at all. > The problem is, I can't seem to prove that the new board works! > > % tail -f /dev/dsp > /dev/dsp > tail: /dev/dsp: Device busy the "Voxware" driver does not support multiple opens to the same device. The "pcm" driver does but only on true full-duplex cards (not SB ones). > Trying a game (xgalaga) that is supposed to make sound, well, things > are awefully quiet. ... > Which seems to work: > % dmesg: > sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa > snd0: > sbxvi0 not found > sbmidi0 not found at 0x330 i think you are detecting the onboard audio controller, not the PCI one. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message