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Date:      Wed, 01 Mar 2000 23:19:38 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Nathan Sheeley <nsheeley@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sounb Blaster PCI 128, help!
Message-ID:  <38BE160A.B3F6EC9F@3-cities.com>
References:  <20000302070347.41558.qmail@hotmail.com>

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Nathan Sheeley wrote:
> 
> I have similar problems with my sb pci128, and two days of fiddling
> with it have netted nothing.  I can detect it (with the odd 0 irq,
> which Karel claims is okay) and play with no error messages, but
> I get no sound.  The "mixer" program reports the vol already set
> to 100, and strangely I can't (as me or as root) change the vol to
> something other than 100.  It reports changing it, but when I query
> it it hasn't changed.
> 
> I'm out of ideas how what I might be doing is different than everyone
> who does have it working ;)  I have a SMP motherboard, an Abit dual
> Celeron thing, maybe that is it.  But I have tried uni kernels with
> no results.
> 
> I do know the sound card/speakers/etc work, 'cause I downloaded
> the OSS uni driver and it worked well (with a uni kernel, it locks
> up as advertised on the SMP version).  If only they had a SMP
> version.  The pcm man page reports that a driver for es1371 is
> being "worked on".  Perhaps the changes are only in 4.0?
> 
> Nate
> 
> kernel entries:
> 
> # sound
> device pcm0 at pnp?
> device es1 at pnp?

I don't have the es1 and my pcmo doesn't have "at pnp" and it works.
You also need to do a "sh MAKEDEV snd1" in /dev

Mine has a permission problem when I try to play an audio CDROM but
everything else works.

Kent

> 
> # /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (981002) Mar  1 2000 13:36:16
> Installed devices:
> pcm2: <ES1371Q AudioPCI> at 0xd400 irq 0 dma 0:0
> 
> # dmesg/bootup
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
> es1: <AudioPCI ES1371> rev 0x07 int a irq 19 on pci0.17.0
> # irq 19 seems odd, since my plug&pray bios reports it at 10.
> # if I force the issue in the kernel config file, I can get
> # es1: <AudioPCI ES1371> rev 0x07 int a irq 10 on pci0.17.0
> pcm1: using I/O space register mapping at 0xd400
> es1371: codec vendor  revision 0
> es1371: codec features Bass & Treble
> es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement
> 
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