From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 10:39:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dazed.slacker.com (dazed.slacker.com [208.15.208.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A341637B42C for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:39:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 55294 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Aug 2000 16:39:03 -0000 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:39:02 -0500 From: David McNett To: Ernst de Haan Cc: chris.smith@raytheon.co.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SBLive in 4.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <20000831113902.A54935@dazed.slacker.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ernst de Haan , chris.smith@raytheon.co.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <967733130.39ae6f8a93322@www.tdyc.com> <20000831181013.A2741@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000831181013.A2741@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl>; from ernst@jollem.com on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 06:10:13PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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