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Date:      Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:15:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Steve Bernacki Jr." <steve@ziplink.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Weirdness w/ ESS ES1688 AudioDrive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980702154841.22227E-100000@zip1.ziplink.net>

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Hey all,

The battle of the Hitachi laptop continues: I've now been working on
getting sound up and running.  Under Windoze the sound card is identified
as "ES1879 Plug and Play AudioDrive (WDM)"; under Linux, it is identified
as "<ESS ES1688 AudioDrive (rev 11) (3.1)>"  Following up on other posts,
it appears this card is SoundBlaster compatable, and should work with
Luigi's sound driver.  So, I put pcm0 in my kernel config, set the irq to
9, iomem to 0x220, and drq to 1 as listed in the BIOS, and rebuilt it.
Rebooted the computer, and cat'ed a .au file to /dev/audio -- it played
great!  Figuring I was all set I then tried mxaudio, amp, mpg123 to play a
few mp3's; nothing.  (Actually, under amp, I just got what could best be
described as "static".)

Scratching my head, I then tried the old sound drivers with the same
irq/iomem parameters, etc.  cat'ing the .au file again worked flawlessly.
I then tried playing an mp3 with mxaudio.  This time the mp3 played, but
played *extremely* slowly (like, less than a quarter of the speed it
should be playing at.)

I'm at a loss; it's quite odd that .au files play but mp3's don't.  The
only thing that I find odd is that the sound card setup in the BIOS lists
two drq's for the card: 1 and 5.  I tried changing it to just 1, but got
the same results as last time (reeeeaally slow play.)

Does anyone have any hints/suggestions?  This sound card is in a Hitachi 
VisionBook PRO.

Thanks!
-S

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