From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 4:10:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC3537B423 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 04:10:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13XM2G-0008jm-00; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:09:32 +0300 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:09:32 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: gsjacobs@netactive.co.za Subject: Re: Troubleshooting: Sound Message-ID: <20000908140932.C22458@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, gsjacobs@netactive.co.za References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Gail Jacobs on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:08:15PM +0200 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 2:00PM up 11 days, 2:51, 7 users, load averages: 0.90, 0.64, 0.55 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Gail Jacobs : [000907 22:07]: Gail Jacobs>Dear freeBSD.org, Gail Jacobs> Gail Jacobs>Dear freeBSD.org, Gail Jacobs> Gail Jacobs>I have recently installed freeBSD on a partition on my primary hard disk, Gail Jacobs>which also runs windows 98. Gail Jacobs>I have set up most of my other hardware (with alot of my friend's help), but Gail Jacobs>neither of us could get my sound to co-operate. Gail Jacobs>It is a Creative Soundblaster 16 (ISA). My friend know's his UNIX a whole Gail Jacobs>lot better than me, and he tried just about everything he could think of, he Gail Jacobs>runs a machine with a PCI soundcard, and his auto-detects it on start-up, as Gail Jacobs>far as i can see 'pcm' is not initialized, on start-up it displays neither a Gail Jacobs>failure or success message. in my config file in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf the Gail Jacobs>line reads "device pcm", and we tried the line "device pcm0 at isa? ...etc" Gail Jacobs>but to no avail. i am not sure what the problem is. i am really hoping you Gail Jacobs>could help me, as i am sure it is something stupid i have missed. another Gail Jacobs>thing, the IRQ is reported as 10 by windows, but BSD reports my USB Gail Jacobs>controller to be on 10, so i disabled USB in my bios as i have the Gail Jacobs>motherboard expansions, but no physical ports so it is of no use to me. then Gail Jacobs>BSD reported my Compaq Netelligent PCI network card to be using IRQ 10, and Gail Jacobs>now windows reports it to be on IRQ 9. My friend said i should note that i Gail Jacobs>am not currently on the "freeBSD mailing list". Gail Jacobs> I also have an ISA sound card like yours and an almost similar problem to yours when it gets to the IRQ issues and the USB devices. I've had to compile a kernel without USB support to have the ISA sound card detected and assigned resources. I've sorted out my sound card only to the extent that I can play audio CDs by pressing on the play buttom on the drive. Apparently there's not been so much help to me with my CS6236 ISA card. But there is a file /sys/i386/conf/LINT which will guide you on what device options you can compile in your kernel to work with your card. I also think that you should include a copy of your dmesg output..it will help these guys to help you out..also let them know what version of FreeBSD you are on... -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message