From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 2 13:17:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00153 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 13:17:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zip1.ziplink.net (zip1.ziplink.net [206.15.168.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00130 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 13:16:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@ziplink.net) Received: from localhost (steve@localhost) by zip1.ziplink.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA25941 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:15:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:15:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Bernacki Jr." Reply-To: "Steve Bernacki Jr." To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Weirdness w/ ESS ES1688 AudioDrive Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 "" 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 -- Steve Bernacki, Jr. | steve@ziplink.net | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message