From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 23 15:55:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freed.dyn.ez-ip.net (derby.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DAAD14BCD for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:55:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spidey@freed.dyn.ez-ip.net) Received: (from spidey@localhost) by freed.dyn.ez-ip.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA02475; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:55:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from spidey) From: Spidey MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14193.26051.197864.442958@freed.dyn.ez-ip.net> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:54:59 -0400 (EDT) To: Kevin Weiss Cc: Sam Stephenson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 problems References: <99062118550800.22560@thanatos.conio.net> <19990623145618.EDD5C15303@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.71 under 21.1 "20 Minutes to Nikko" XEmacs Lucid (patch 2) Reply-To: Spidey Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I arrive a little late in this thread, but anyways.. What is the output of pnpinfo? Have you configured pnp in your kernel? Are you changing pnp parameters upon boot? Here I have a Sound Blaster Vibra 16 PnP card and I configured it this way: controller pnp0 controller snd0 device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 10 drq 3 vector sbintr device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 7 device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x300 device opl0 at isa? port 0x388 and I do this on boot up: pnp 2 0 os enable irq0 10 drq0 3 drq1 7 port0 0x220 port1 0x300 port2 0x388 Maybe your card isn't properly configured via PnP? Does it uses the same IRQ/DRQ in NT? Hope that helps, ciao ants. --- Big Brother told Kevin Weiss to write, at 09:57 of June 23: > 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 -- Stop the bombings. Stop the murders. Anti-war. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message