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Date:      Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:40:49 -0700 (MST)
From:      Mac Newbold <newbold@cs.utah.edu>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   ESS Technology Allegro-1 with 4.7-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20030207113311.W50931-100000@bas.flux.utah.edu>

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My old Compaq box with an Allegro soundcard in the motherboard used to
work fine (after a lot of work) under 4.0-RELEASE. Now under 4.7-STABLE,
it doesn't work anymore, and won't play anything except system beeps. At
one point I was also running 4.4-STABLE (and 4.6-STABLE, too I think),
and it would occasionally give me "channel dead" messages, and would come
back alive after a reboot sometimes.

/dev/sndstat says:
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <ESS Technology Allegro-1> at io 0x1400 irq 5 (4p/1r/0v channels duplex)

I've been trying to play mp3's with mpg123, amp, etc., and have tried
cat'ing wav files and other data at /dev/dsp, /dev/audio, etc. to no
avail.

Anyone have any pointers on what may be wrong or what I could do to get it
working again?

About the only possiblity I have been able to think of is that the work I
did to get it going under 4.0-RELEASE may need to be partly or completely
undone, now that the driver is included in -STABLE. But I didn't want to
try anything without advice from Someone Who Knows.

Thanks,
Mac

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Mac Newbold		Univ. of Utah School of Computing
newbold@cs.utah.edu	http://www.cs.utah.edu/~newbold/


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