From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 10: 8:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heinz.jollem.com (c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.104.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6494D37B422 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:08:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ernst@localhost) by heinz.jollem.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA02982; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:08:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ernst) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:08:06 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan To: chris.smith@raytheon.co.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SBLive in 4.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <20000831190806.A2967@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> References: <967733130.39ae6f8a93322@www.tdyc.com> <20000831181013.A2741@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <20000831113902.A54935@dazed.slacker.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000831113902.A54935@dazed.slacker.com>; from nugget@slacker.com on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:39:02AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey David, I don't have ECC RAM :) But I _do_ have the problems. :| Ernst David McNett wrote: > chris.smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote: > > Do the (rather well hidden) SB Live drivers ship with 4.1-RELEASE on the CDs? > > Also, do the drivers actually work now as I was having _really bad_ trouble > > with PCI errors and kernel crashes on sending anything to the dsp > > (instacrash)? Does anyone know the state of these drivers as there appears to > > be no obvious information anywhere? > > Ernst de Haan wrote: > > There have been a few more posts about the SB Live! in relation with FBSD > > 4.1 (both -R and -S), scroll up to read more :) > > > > AFAIK the problem was introduced around the time of 4.1-R, and is not solved > > yet. > > On a tip I got from someone here on the lists, I disabled the ECC error > checking on my RAM in my system's BIOS and since doing that I've had > no problems at all using the pcm driver on my soundblaster live. > (tracking -stable from about mid-march to now) Prior to disabling ECC, > I had frequent lockups when playing audio. > > -- > ________________________________________________________________________ > |David McNett |To ensure privacy and data integrity this message has| > |nugget@slacker.com|been encrypted using dual rounds of ROT-13 encryption| > |Birmingham, AL USA|Please encrypt all important correspondence with PGP!| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message