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Date:      Fri, 8 May 1998 14:35:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.org>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SoundBlaster 16 question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508143444.28068d-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980507183715.3277C-100000@ds9.users.dreamhaven.org>

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Relaying to -multimedia.

On Thu, 7 May 1998, Bryce Newall wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> I recently got around to adding support to my kernel for my SoundBlaster
> 16 card.  This is one of the older cards, non-PnP, everything jumper-set.
> It's set on IRQ 10, DMA1, 16-bit DMA 3, address 220h... everything is the
> default except for the IRQ (the default is 7).  The kernel recognizes it
> on bootup:
> 
> sb0 at 0x220 irq 10 drq 1 on isa
> sb0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.5>
> sbxvi0 at 0x0 drq 5 on isa
> sbxvi0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.5>
> sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa
>  <SoundBlaster MPU-401>
> opl0 at 0x388 on isa
> opl0: <Yamaha OPL-3 FM>

Looks good to me.

> I also used the MAKEDEV script to create a devide node snd0, which in turn
> created /dev/audio0 (and /dev/audio as a symlink to audio0).  The problem
> is that whenever I try to use the sound device, it tells me it's busy.
> Doesn't matter whether I'm a normal user, or root... the same thing
> happens:
> 
> [2]root@ds9:/root # cat ~data/kh_theme.wav > /dev/audio
> /dev/audio: Device busy.

Do `cat /dev/sndstat' and post the output.   You shouldn't have to symlink
audio to audio0, makedev should DTRT.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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