From owner-freebsd-questions  Sun Jan 25 23:18:00 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17717
          for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 23:18:00 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17711
          for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 23:17:56 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from rostewa2@vt.edu)
Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30])
	by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA11385
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 02:19:57 -0500 (EST)
Received: from vt.edu (rostewa2.campus.vt.edu [198.82.96.185])
	by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA27493
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 02:17:52 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <34CBF25A.57369BC3@vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 02:18:08 +0000
From: Brandon Stewart <rostewa2@vt.edu>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: sound blaster sound card.
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk

I have tried making quality sound output on two systems with the sound
blaster compatible sound cards. I use splay and the sound is atrocious.
I force output to mono and its still atrocious, but at least I can make
out what notes are supposed to be played. The sound card is found on the
correct port, IRQ, and DRQ. The exact same result has been found on two
systems, but only with sound blaster compatibles. I'm using an old
(Aztech) packard bell generic piece of ____ that generated decent sound
in windows, my friend is using an AWE 32. We both get the same quality
sound. Incidentally, I plugged a gravis ultrasound into the computer,
compiled that device into the kernel, and it sounds beautiful. The
gravis has only one (ignorable) problem. The first virtual terminal gets
flooded with the error code isa_dmastart:channel 5 busy. If I switch the
kernel config to try a different dma X, then the error would be
isa_dmastart:channel X busy. Any feedback would be appreciated.