From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 23 7:56:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb1-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDD5C15303 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 07:56:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 2050 invoked from network); 23 Jun 1999 14:56:12 -0000 Received: from smf-l2.facsmf.utexas.edu (HELO J1.utexas.edu) (128.83.104.64) by umbs-smtp-1 with SMTP; 23 Jun 1999 14:56:12 -0000 X-Sender: kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:57:33 -0500 To: Sam Stephenson From: Kevin Weiss Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 problems Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <99062118550800.22560@thanatos.conio.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <19990623145618.EDD5C15303@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:58 AM 6/22/99 -0700, you wrote: >On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Sam Stephenson wrote: > >> I'm running FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE, and it seems that my SoundBlaster 16 doesn't >> work. It's not a Plug-and-Play card (it's one of the old ones), and works fine >> in NT4. Here's what I have in my kernel config file: >> >> controller snd0 >> device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 vector sbintr >> device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 >> device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330 >> >> I have no conflicts, and the device seems to be recognized at startup: >> >> sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa >> snd0: >> sbxvi0 at drq 5 on isa >> snd0: >> sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa >> snd0: >> >> When I try to play various audio files using splay, I get this error: >> >> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >This is trying to tell you something :-) > >> Other programs, like amp, simply sit without giving any error messages >> at all. Catting a file to /dev/dsp produces static, just as it >> should. I installed the port 'rsynth', a speech synthesizer, to see >> if I could get some sound; strangely, only the first part of a string >> is played: > >Try letting > >cat /bin/cat > /dev/audio > >run to completion, or find a long .au sound and play it. If it sticks or >starts repeating itself, it's a DMA or interrupt conflict all right. > > I'm not sure if the problem still persists in the 3.2 Release, but I remember in the 3.1 Release, you had to put your card info in the kernel.conf file and NOT the kernel.config file. Check the mailing list archives, and the errata notes (esp. for 3.1) for more info. Another thing, can you actually hear that loud "humm" from your speakers, the same you get from any speaker when it's just sitting there idle, but turned up really loud? You ought to be able to notice this at the end of your FBSD machine booting up. up To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message