Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:22:46 -0700 From: "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A moment of sound then silence, or, where did my sound card go? Message-ID: <36BBB586.3CF5915A@infowest.com>
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Hello,
I just got sound somewhat working in my 3.0-STABLE kernel (SoundBlaster
AWE64 card), installed the amp port from (/usr/ports/audio/amp), then tried
it out:
% amp -s test-test-123.mp3
amp 0.7.6, (C) Tomislav Uzelac 1996,1997
THIS PROGRAM COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
PLEASE READ THE DOCUMENTATION FOR DETAILS
Playing: test-test-123.mp3
Properties: stereo 44100Hz
Coding Method: MPEG1.0 layer3
Bitrate: 128kbit/s
{ 70 }
At this point I hear approx. 1/2 second of the audio, crystal clear,
perfect, then dead silence, and the frame counter (the { 70 } part) stops
dead. I CTRL-C out, and restart, but amp reports "Unable to open the audio
device". I wait 15 seconds, try again, and the same thing repeats, 1/2
second of audio, then dead silence.
Hmm, I think, maybe this is an amp bug? So I install mpg123 and try it. I
only hear silence with mpg123, even though the frame counter slowly (slow in
the extreme) progresses through it.
Not one to give up easily, I use amp's ability to convert .mp3 to other
formats:
% amp -s -convert test-test-123.mp3 test.out
...
then
...
% cat test.out > /dev/audio
I hear SCREETCHing sound for about a second, then nothing for about 10
seconds, then I see:
cat: stdout: Input/output error
Here's a cat of /dev/sndstat:
# cat /dev/sndstat
VoxWare Sound Driver:3.5-alpha15-970902 (Wed Aug 6 22:58:35 PDT 1997
Amancio Hasty@rah.star-gate.com)
Config options:
Installed drivers:
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 2: SoundBlaster
Type 6: SoundBlaster16
Type 25: AWE32 Synth
Type 7: SB16 MIDI
Card config:
SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 10 drq 1
SoundBlaster16 at 0xffffffff irq 1 drq 5
SB16 MIDI at 0x330 irq 1
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 irq 1
AWE32 Synth at 0x620 irq 1
Audio devices:
0: SoundBlaster 16 4.16
Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3
1: AWE32-0.4.2c (RAM512k)
Midi devices:
0: SoundBlaster 16 Midi
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
0: SoundBlaster
1: AWE32 Equalizer
Any ideas where I should look next?
Thanks in advance!
Aaron out.
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