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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:47:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      Christian Fortin <cfortin@ec.camitel.com>
To:        FREEBSD-MULTIMEDIA@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What is the best sound card for FBSD ?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.971120205831.cfortin@ec.camitel.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711040645.HAA19411@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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I have buyed a sound card "A-OPEN" including chip CS4237 PnP: AW35 Pro
When my rplayd start, I received this message:

rplay_audi_get_volume: pcm mixer device not installed.

What is my problem, I can read in the note "Probably your card use FM
Synthesizer for change the volume !" But what can I do with this probability ?

In my card's doc I can read: FM Music Synthesizer: SB base + 0~3 and SB base 8~9
Also my io address for WSS is 534H. And support DMA 0,1,3

Other Question: What is the best SB or MSS ? my card support both!

this is my dmesg:

Copyright (c) 1992-1997 FreeBSD Inc.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
        The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 20 16:41:30 EST 1997
    cfortin@dns2.ec.camitel.com:/work/usr/src/sys/compile/MERLIN
CPU: Pentium (132.95-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x52c  Stepping=12
  Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
real memory  = 134217728 (131072K bytes)
avail memory = 127123456 (124144K bytes)
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0 <Intel 82439> rev 3 on pci0:0
chip1 <Intel 82371SB PCI-ISA bridge> rev 1 on pci0:7:0
chip2 <Intel 82371SB IDE interface> rev 0 on pci0:7:1
de0 <Digital 21041 Ethernet> rev 17 int a irq 11 on pci0:18
de0: SMC 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1
de0: address 00:e0:29:07:ac:11
vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 3 on pci0:19
Probing for PnP devices:
CSN 1 Vendor ID: CSCd937 [0x37d9630e] Serial 0xffffffff
mss_attach <CS4237>1 at 0x530 irq 5 dma 1:3 flags 0x13
pcm1 (CS423x/Yamaha <CS4237> sn 0xffffffff) at 0x530 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x13 id 2
0
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
ed0 not found at 0x280
ed1 not found at 0x300
fe0 not found at 0x300
mss_probe: no address supplied, try default 0x530
device at 0x530 already attached as unit 1
sb_probe: no address supplied, try defaults (0x220,0x240)
device at 0x220 already attached as unit 1
pcm0 not found at 0xffffffff
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
lp0: TCP/IP capable interface
lpt1 not found at 0xffffffff
mse0 not found at 0x23c
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
fd1: 1.2MB 5.25in
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 82560 A4  ->
wd0: 2442MB (5001696 sectors), 4962 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1 not found at 0x170
bt0 not found at 0x330
uha0 not found at 0x330
aha0 not found at 0x330
aic0 not found at 0x340
nca0 not found at 0x1f88
nca1 not found at 0x350
sea0 not found
wt0 not found at 0x300
mcd0 not found at 0x300
matcdc0 not found at 0x230
scd0 not found at 0x230
ie0: unknown board_id: f000
ie0 not found at 0x300
ie1: unknown board_id: f000
ie1 not found at 0x360
ep0 not found at 0x300
ex0 not found at 0x300
le0 not found at 0x300
lnc0 not found at 0x280
ze0 not found at 0x300
zp0 not found at 0x300
npx0 flags 0x1 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
de0: enabling 10baseT port

On 04-Nov-97 Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>> Anybody can give to me a feedback about the best sound card for
>> FreeBSD at this time.
>> 
>> I want to run SpeakFreely. It use 16 bit DAC and Full Duplex.
>> 
>> I want a sound card supported by the PnP system of FreeBSD.
>> I want to be able to select an IRQ over 9.
>> 
>> I have check in Kernel config, I can see GUS and SB.
>> wich one is the more suported for done a good work ?
>> Wich model in this two companies is the best.
>> 
>> A friend run with a full jumpered SB pro. I think
>> that's the best for an easy configuration, but it's not Full Duplexe,
>> and it's obsolete  :-(
>
>try to avoid SB cards and buy some (much cheaper!) full duplex WSS
>clone such as those based on the Crystal CS4237.
>
>Drivers for audio and pnp are at
>
>       http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD.html
>
>       Cheers
>       Luigi

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E-Mail: Christian Fortin <cfortin@ec.camitel.com>
Date: 20-Nov-97
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