From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 5 19:23:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16625 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:23:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from infowest.com (ns1.infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16620 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:23:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from agifford@infowest.com) Received: from infowest.com (Tambler.infowest.com [207.49.57.143]) by infowest.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA18583 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 20:23:25 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36BBB586.3CF5915A@infowest.com> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:22:46 -0700 From: "Aaron D. Gifford" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A moment of sound then silence, or, where did my sound card go? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message