From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jun 24 16:18:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA12920 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA12904 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:18:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA06348; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:17:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970624161741.24051@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:17:41 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Neil Smith Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DMA timed out with Soundblaster Pro soundcard References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Neil Smith on Tue, Jun 24, 1997 at 02:55:26PM +0100 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Neil Smith scribbled this message on Jun 24: > > Hi all. > > I'm using FREEBSD 2.2.2 RELEASE. > > I'm trying to get a Soundblaster Pro (8bit) soundcard working. When I cat I have almost the exact same card (rev 3.1 though)... > an .au file to /dev/audio, I get bursts of sample (sounding correct), with > 1 second (approx) pauses in between. The bursts of sample only last > perhaps 0.2 seconds. this sounds like a IRQ problem... as the sound driver isn't getting notified that the buffer is [partially] done playing and needs to load it up again... > I've tried different irq's, drq's etc. using the user config, but exactly > the same thing happens. this alomst might be a problem with conflicts with a lpt port... right now I have my sbpro on irq 10 just to keep it out of the way... just match the kernel with the jumpers on the card... hope you get it working... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD