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Date:      Sun, 24 Oct 1999 22:47:52 +0200
From:      Fredrik Carlen <fredrik.carlen@telia.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Musician with Sound problems
Message-ID:  <99102423075800.00533@orcslayer.leonis.net>

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It seems like a whole lotta people have troubles getting their soundcards to
work on this mailing list, and to be frank, so have I. I'm not expecting
someone to solve my problems, just gimme something to work with. I _have_ read
all of the sound related stuff in "The complete FreeBSD", so I think I need
something else...

The sound related stuff in dmesg is :
 "sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa 
Hmm... Could this be an ESS688
based card (rev 11)

NOTE! SB Pro support required with your soundcard!
snd0: <SoundBlaster Pro 3.1>   "

My kernel config file has this stuff in it, which i think should be appropriate:
"controller snd0  
device sb0      at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1"

When I recently played a system sound, I got a small beep (not from the system
speaker, but really from the speakers attached to the sound board) and a bunch
of errors saying:
"Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
[...I think you've gotten  _that_ by now!]"

The following error used to pop up when I start X, but this no longer
happens(!): "maudio: cannot open audio device"
(Like I said, I don't get this now...for some reason...)

I have tried, in /dev/ :
"# ./MAKEDEV snd0"
...but when I then proceed to:
"# ls -l | grep snd0" , 
snd0 isn't there!
How can this be? 

When I recently played a system sound, I got a small beep and abunch of errors
saying:
"Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
[...and so on, and so on...]"

The _whole_ of 
"$ startx >Xserver_output 2>&1"
comes here:

"XFree86 Version 3.3.3.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: December 29 1998
	If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
	than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
	problems.  (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386 [ELF] 
Configured drivers:
  S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0)
      newmmio, mmio_928, s3_generic
Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
(using VT number 4)

XF86Config: /etc/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) XKB: model: "pc101"
(**) XKB: layout: "se"
(**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200
(**) Mouse: buttons: 3
(**) S3: Graphics device ID: "Primary Card"
(**) S3: Monitor ID: "Primary Monitor"
Warning: The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local" does not exist.
         Entry deleted from font path.
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
(--) S3: PCI: Trio32/64 rev 54, Linear FB @ 0xe0000000
(--) S3: chipset:   Trio64V+ rev. 54
(--) S3: chipset driver: newmmio
(--) S3: card type: PCI
(**) S3: videoram:  1024k
(--) S3: Ramdac type: s3_trio64
(--) S3: Ramdac speed: 135 MHz
(--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 52.500 MHz)
(--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 95.000 MHz
(**) S3: Mode "800x600": mode clock =  50.000
(**) S3: Using 16 bpp.  Color weight: 565
(--) S3: Virtual resolution set to 800x600
(--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xE0000000
(--) S3: Using a banksize of 1024k, line width of 800
(--) S3: Using a single 54x54 area at (746,601) for expanding pixmaps
(--) S3: Using 16 planes of 746x54 at (0,601) aligned 8 as font cache
KCharset: Wrong charset!

maudio OSS Error: 5
maudio OSS Error: 5
maudio OSS Error: 5
KCharset: Wrong charset!"


I am really grateful for all the help I can get, and I am going start with
recompiling with another set of IRQ/DRQ's
/Fredrik ("What am I - a musician or a computer software engineer?") Carlen


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