From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Jul 11 05:14:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA04034 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 05:14:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vanuata (vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk [130.209.240.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA04025 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 05:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from solander.dcs.gla.ac.uk (actually host solander) by vanuata with SMTP (MMTA) with ESMTP; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:13:51 +0100 Received: (from simonm@localhost) by solander.dcs.gla.ac.uk (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA14599; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:13:47 +0100 (BST) To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: onboard sound problem References: From: Simon Marlow Date: 11 Jul 1997 13:13:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: batie@aahz.jf.intel.com's message of Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:57:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk batie@aahz.jf.intel.com (Alan Batie) writes: > I've got a new Dell Dimension XPS H266; it's got onboard sound, as shown > below. The problem is that when I try to play sounds (using xanim or splay), > the sound comes in spurts --- a half second of sound, a one second pause, > a half second of sound, etc. I disabled the lpt port, noticing that the > irq's conflicted, but it made no difference. The error says it's DMA that's > failing anyhow... Thoughts? I had the same problem on my Toshiba 460CDT, it turned out that the onboard sound was defaulting to DMA 0 instead of 1. Because you are actually getting some sound, however, it looks like an IRQ conflict/misconfiguration. Try booting Windows to set up the sound card before soft-booting into FreeBSD, and check that Windows is setting the IRQ properly. Cheers, Simon