From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 17 16:57:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05655 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:57:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.magi.com (InfoWeb.Magi.com [204.191.213.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA05629 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:56:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pcbroch@magi.com) Received: from ms01-298.ott.istar.ca (magi.com) [137.186.209.44] by mail.magi.com with esmtp (Exim 1.80 #5) id 1022zv-0007HT-00; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:56:55 -0500 Message-ID: <36CB659A.C9E85125@magi.com> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:58:02 -0500 From: Patrick Brochu X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sound Blaster 16 PNP with 3.0 Nov 98: Problems! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello all: I am looking for a kind soul who'd be willing to help me getting my SB 16 card to work with FreeBSD. I recompiled the kernel and made my snd0 device, but still can't access the card. Thanks a lot! Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 18 02:14:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA21243 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 02:14:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.ptt.ru ([195.34.0.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA21229 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 02:14:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from voux@iname.com) Received: (qmail 28398 invoked from network); 18 Jan 1999 07:12:57 -0000 Received: from dialup-29118.dialup.ptt.ru (195.34.29.118) by dialup.ptt.ru with SMTP; 18 Jan 1999 07:12:57 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:16:02 +0300 (MSK) From: voux X-Sender: voux@hedgehog.shadow.net To: Patrick Brochu cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16 PNP with 3.0 Nov 98: Problems! In-Reply-To: <36CB659A.C9E85125@magi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org See this help page http://flag.blackened.net/freebsd/sound.html On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Patrick Brochu wrote: > Hello all: > > I am looking for a kind soul who'd be willing to help me getting my SB > 16 card to work with FreeBSD. I recompiled the kernel and made my snd0 > device, but still can't access the card. Thanks a lot! > > Pat > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 18 17:25:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16930 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:25:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pegasus.com ([209.84.70.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA16925 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:25:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard@pegasus.com) Received: by pegasus.com (8.6.8/PEGASUS-2.2) id PAA16405; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:25:05 -1000 Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:25:05 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Message-Id: <199901190125.PAA16405@pegasus.com> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sound problems, interrupt priority? Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Aloha, Can someone tell me where the sound card interrupt priority lies in the FreeBSD scheme of things? I'm still trying to figure out why my audio output skips and stutters occasionally with BSD 3.0-RELEASE and is rock solid with win95 on the same hardware. A `find' in the background makes BSD stutter a lot, but still has no effect on win95 audio. Shouldn't the sound drivers have the highest priority of all on a system with SCSI disks? I"ve talked to others with similar problems on different hardware so mine is not an isolated case. I've had the same problem with the BSD drivers and the OSS drivers. My system is a 200MHz MMX Pentium with 64Megs RAM, Adaptec 1542 SCSI, Soundblaster AWE64 gold. I've looked at the code but can't make sense of the interrupt priority levels. Is there an easy way to give the sound drivers top priority? Thanks Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 19 10:09:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18325 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:09:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gryphon.darlington.ac.uk ([194.66.96.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA18320 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:09:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from JLeaver@darlington.ac.uk) Received: (from gproxy@localhost) by gryphon.darlington.ac.uk (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) id SAA06154 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:10:41 GMT Received: from sta_mail1.darlington.ac.uk(194.66.101.3) by gryphon.darlington.ac.uk via smap (3.2) id xma006059; Tue, 19 Jan 99 18:10:27 GMT Received: by sta_mail1.darlington.ac.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:12:32 -0000 Message-ID: <688E2B97F0A9D211BD580000D11B13DF03E658@sta_mail1.darlington.ac.uk> From: Jonathan Leaver To: "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard with 2.2.8-release Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:12:30 -0000 Importance: high X-Priority: 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I'm new to this so please be generous with your patience... I've got a PS/2 Mouse and a [PS/2] Keyboard - one with a small plug on it anyway... I can configure the Kernel, Eradicate Conflicts etc. BUT When the next configuration screen starts up the keyboard doesn't work... I presume the System hasn't picked up the keyboard.... I need to know why. Any Ideas? Anyone suffered a similar fate? I'm using a Gigabyte GA-5AX Motherboard with 64Mb RAM, 3C905b ethernet card, Accton NE1000 Ethernet card and a 2Gb Western Digital Hard Drive plus PS/2 Mouse. Please Help! Jonathan Leaver Jleaver@darlington.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 19 11:10:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24580 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:10:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24573 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net) From: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net Received: from localhost (brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24153 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:09:39 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.ac.hmc.edu: brdavis owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:09:39 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: multi-port serial PCCards for 3.x Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm working on an application where we're looking at stripping down some Librettos to use as very mobile computers. Unfortunaly they have rather limitited I/O capacity. We'd like to give them some more serial ports via a PCCard. We'll be happy with 2 ports, but 4 sure wouldn't hurt. What do people recommend for a 3.x system without PAO. Recommendations for a 2.2.x system without PAO would be useful too, especaily if there are problems with 3.x, but we'd rather run 3.x since this is a research system. Thanks for your time, Brooks Davis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 19 12:56:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06342 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:56:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06337 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:56:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA08348; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:56:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA04466; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:56:00 -0700 Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:56:00 -0700 Message-Id: <199901192056.NAA04466@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-port serial PCCards for 3.x In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm working on an application where we're looking at stripping down some > Librettos to use as very mobile computers. We're doing this very thing at work. 300 of them to be exact. :) > Unfortunaly they have rather > limitited I/O capacity. If you make the docking station 'mandatory', they work well. > We'd like to give them some more serial ports via > a PCCard. We're also doing this, but under Win95. > We'll be happy with 2 ports, but 4 sure wouldn't hurt. What do people > recommend for a 3.x system without PAO. FreeBSD doesn't support multi-function cards, even if the cards have the same function on them. (Multiple serial cards, etc..) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 20 06:01:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA02526 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 06:01:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost.charite.de (barrier-17.charite.de [193.175.73.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA02520 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 06:01:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from udo.wolter@charite.de) Received: by mailhost.charite.de (5.65v4.0/1.1.8.2/08Mar95-0213PM) id AA27065; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:01:31 +0100 Received: from postamt1.charite.de(193.175.70.246) by mailhost.charite.de via smap (V1.3-PCG 08/1998) id sma027359; Wed Jan 20 15:01:19 1999 Received: from localhost by postamt1.charite.de; (5.65/1.1.8.2/16Aug95-0231PM) id AA21461; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:01:19 +0100 Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:01:18 +0100 (MET) From: Udo Wolter Reply-To: udo.wolter@charite.de To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NE2000 PCI with 100MBit anyone ? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi ! I have some problems in understanding the hardware compatibility. I'm planning to buy a NE2000 clone because they're very cheap. I've seen some with PCI interface and 100 MBit so I'm wondering if they will get recognized and if they will run ? I've seen some people mentioned their NE2000-clones running in their systems even though they're PCI based. In the Hardware guide of FreeBSD only ISA cards are mentioned. If PCI also runs I'm wondering why many soundcards won't run in a PCI version even though they have similar chipsets in the ISA versions (which run already) ? Or are there only some NE2000 clones running perfectly ? What about NE2000 PCMCIA cards ? I have a general problem with the idea of compatibility regarding ISA or PCI devices. Can anyone explain these coherences ? If a device is supported will it work with ISA, with PCI, with both Bus-systems or do any system of them need a special driver ? Thanx, Udo P.S.: Anyway, if anyone uses NE2000 100MBit PCI clones, what is the maximum data-rate ? -- Udo Wolter, email: uwp@i.am, www: http://i.am/uwp !!!! LOW-TECH Page: http://hello.to/low-tech !!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 20 06:28:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA04650 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 06:28:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw.dcos.mipt.ru (gw.dcos.mipt.ru [193.125.143.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA04588; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 06:27:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lesha@mos.net) Received: from (mail@localhost) by gw.dcos.mipt.ru (8.8.8/8.8.8/spamctl/akk-180698) with ESMTP id RAA00510; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:35:06 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from lesha@mos.net) Message-ID: <36A5E999.263D3EBB@mos.net> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:35:05 +0300 From: Alexei Khalimov Organization: MOSnet - Moscow Residental Internet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3Com FDDILink - 3C797 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello! I have found 3Com 3C797 FDDIlink adapters to be 100% compatible with DEC DEFPA FDDI, actually 3Com uses DEC chipset in their adapters, so even in dmesg it looks like DEC DEFPA, and yes it works as it should. I think it is a good idea to include 3C797 in "FreeBSD Supported Hardware" Cheers, AL. ----- Alexei Khalimov * NET coordinator * lesha@mos.net Moscow Residental InterNet +7 (095) 946-2114 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 21 02:42:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA17768 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 02:42:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de (rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de [134.28.200.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA17757 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 02:42:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reimers@tu-harburg.de) Received: from wastl.aut.tu-harburg.de (wastl.aut.tu-harburg.de [134.28.32.1]) by rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de (8.9.0/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA18542 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:42:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from data.aut.tu-harburg.de by wastl.aut.tu-harburg.de with SMTP (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA12359; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:42:06 +0100 Message-Id: <36A7045F.D0625FD4@tu-harburg.de> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:41:35 +0100 From: Sven Reimers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Hardware Config Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Just looking for a major system upgrade. Anybody got any experience with following config under FreeBSD PII 450 ASUS P2B-F Adaptec2940U2W Elsa Erazor II HP - DAT tape Hardrive I think from IBM or Seagate, CD-ROM maybe Pleyxtor. Any comments, problems. TIA Sven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 21 10:36:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09810 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:36:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pegasus.com ([209.84.70.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA09802 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:36:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard@pegasus.com) Received: by pegasus.com (8.6.8/PEGASUS-2.2) id IAA23746; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:35:41 -1001 Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:35:41 -1001 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Message-Id: <199901211836.IAA23746@pegasus.com> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sound stutters Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Aloha, The sound card stuttering problem is apparently fairly wide-spread. Does anyone have a system that plays WAV and MP3 music files flawlessly? Where you can play full stereo music (MP3 or WAV) for an hour while actively using netscape on the same machine with no skips or stutters in the audio. Win95 can do it, but FreeBSD often cannot. :-( If you're fairly sure your machine passes this test could you please let me know what your configuration is: CPU, sound card, disk controller, drive, amount of memory, FreeBSD version and sound driver, etc. Any and all responses will be most appreciated. Thanks Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 21 12:12:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21840 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:12:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pinky.local.lan (dt025na6.san.rr.com [24.94.5.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21746 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:12:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jabrown@value.net) Received: from localhost (jabrown@localhost) by pinky.local.lan (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA25739; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:10:58 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: pinky.local.lan: jabrown owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:10:57 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Brown Reply-To: Jeff Brown To: Richard Foulk cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound stutters In-Reply-To: <199901211836.IAA23746@pegasus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Richard Foulk wrote: > Does anyone have a system that plays WAV and MP3 music files flawlessly? Yes. Both of the machines I use as workstations have no problems playing MP3's. > Where you can play full stereo music (MP3 or WAV) for an hour while > actively using netscape on the same machine with no skips or stutters > in the audio. Win95 can do it, but FreeBSD often cannot. :-( The play continuously, all day long. I'm currently using "tk3play" to play the MP3's, which in turn uses a modified "mpg123" executable. The sound output format is 44KHz, 16-bit stereo. I notice no skipping. > If you're fairly sure your machine passes this test could you please let > me know what your configuration is: CPU, sound card, disk controller, > drive, amount of memory, FreeBSD version and sound driver, etc. Box 1 ----------------------- PII-333, 64MB RAM No-name ISA sound card, using the "luigi" driver of 2.2.6 vintage: CSN 1 Vendor ID: YMH0030 [0x3000a865] Serial 0x80860001 mss_attach 1 at 0x530 irq 5 dma 0:1 flags 0x11 pcm1 (CS423x/Yamaha sn 0x80860001) at 0x530 irq 5 drq 0 flags 0x11 id 29 Disk controller: ahc0 rev 0 int a irq 15 on pci0:15:0 ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs Drive: (ahc0:0:0): "WDIGTL WDE4360-1807A3 1.80" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 4095MB (8388314 512 byte sectors) ahc0:A:5: refuses WIDE negotiation. Using 8bit transfers FreeBSD Version: FreeBSD stimpy.XXXXX.XXX 2.2.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE #0: Wed Jun 24 02:08:22 PDT 1998 jabrown@XXXXXX.XXXXX.XXX:/usr/src/sys/compile/STIMPY i386 Box 2 ----------------------- P5-200, 64MB RAM SB16 ISA sound card, using the "luigi" driver of 2.2.6 vintage: Probing for PnP devices: CSN 1 Vendor ID: CTL0070 [0x70008c0e] Serial 0xffffffff pcm1 (SB16pnp sn 0xffffffff) at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 id 14 Disk controller: on-board IDE wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0x80ff80ff on isa Drive: wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd0: 6149MB (12594960 sectors), 13328 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S HOWEVER, the mp3 files are coming over nfsv2 (UDP) across a 10B2 ethernet from a 386/40. Gotta love progress. :-) FreeBSD Version: FreeBSD brain.XXXXX.XXX 2.2.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE #28: Sat Oct 3 15:43:20 PDT 1998 jabrown@XXXXX.XXXXX.XXX:/usr/src/sys/compile/BRAIN i386 > Any and all responses will be most appreciated. I regularly run Netscape Navigator 4.05 (the Linux version) and xemacs 20.4 long-term on both machines, as well as several (10 or so?) xterms. I didn't know skipping was that big of a problem; I've never had trouble with it. I hope this info helps. -Jeff Brown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 21 16:58:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28434 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:58:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28429 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:58:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA06938 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 01:57:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 01:57:53 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199901220057.BAA06938@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound stutters Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hardware Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Richard Foulk wrote in list.freebsd-hardware: > The sound card stuttering problem is apparently fairly wide-spread. Yes, especially among Linux users, as far as I can tell from watching the mpg123 mailinglist. ;-) > Does anyone have a system that plays WAV and MP3 music files flawlessly? Yep. > If you're fairly sure your machine passes this test could you please let > me know what your configuration is: CPU, sound card, disk controller, > drive, amount of memory, FreeBSD version and sound driver, etc. I have no problems playing MPEG audio files while doing the usual stuff (Netscape, compiling, etc.) on several boxes. This is one of them: Pentium-166, AWE32, Adaptec 2940 (non-Ultra), 2 Gb IBM OEM + 4 Gb Fujitsu, 128 Mb (only 64 Mb of those are cached), using FreeBSD since 2.0.5 (some recent -stable snapshot right now), both the "classic" voxware drivers as well as Luigi's new driver work fine. Another box (which is even less well-equipped) is my dedicated mp3 player (it also does kernel compiles and such stuff from time to time, which doesn't affect mp3 playback at all): Pentium-100 running at 75 MHz, AWE64, no disk controller, no disks drives, 64 Mb, some recent 3.0 snapshot, Luigi's sound driver (I guess the voxware stuff would work as well). The box is booted and runs via NFSv3 over 10 Mbps ethernet. I'm using mpg123 as the mp3 player software (and some self- written scripts, so I can simply click on the m3u files in Netscape to get streaming audio). I'd recommend to use the -b option of mpg123, so it uses an output buffer for decoded audio data. I usually use 2 Mb of buffer, which equals about 12 seconds of audio. That should be enough to bypass most CPU peaks caused by starting up Netscape and similar things. If everything else fails, you could als give mpg123 some negative nice value, or better yet, run it as a realtime process (see "man rtprio"). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 22 20:12:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08546 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:12:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aaka.3skel.com (3skel-inch-rtr.3skel.com [207.240.212.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08539 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:12:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danj@3skel.com) Received: from fnur.3skel.com (fnur.3skel.com [192.168.0.8]) by aaka.3skel.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09739 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:16:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from danj@3skel.com) Received: from localhost (danj@localhost) by fnur.3skel.com (8.9.1/8.8.2) with ESMTP id XAA01874 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:14:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:14:23 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Janowski To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PCI Audio... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Any word or development going on for PCI audio cards? I have an ESS based one, but alas 3.0 doesn't know it. If not, is there any knowledge about what needs to be done? I hate to suggest that I maight do it since time is always a conflict, but I can hope. Dan -- Dan Janowski danj@3skel.com Triskelion Systems, Inc. Bronx, NY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message