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Date:      Wed, 04 Nov 1998 09:37:42 -0500
From:      Martin Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org>
To:        Graeme Brown <graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to determine sound card IRQ and DRQ settings ?
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19981104093742.00902830@spectre.honk.org>
In-Reply-To: <n1302011898.25463@maczebedee>

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You may want to ask this in -questions, not -newbies.  The guys in -questions have way more experience than us newbies.

M.


At 04:29 PM 11/4/98 +0100, Graeme Brown wrote:
>I am trying to configure a sound card which is integrated with
>the mother board of a Dell Gxa PC under FreeBSD (2.2.5).
>
>I believe the integrated soundcard is a SoundBlaster compatible one.
>I have built a kernel with sound support with kernel config options
>controller      snd0
>device sb0      at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 conflicts drq 1 vector sbintr
>device sbxvi0   at isa? drq 5
>device sbmidi0  at isa? port 0x330      
>
>I 'm not sure if the  sbxvi0 ,  sbmidi0 are needed. They do not probe
>on re-booting.  I have made sound support devices by
>cd /dev
>./MAKEDEV snd0
>
>When I boot the new kernel the sound driver appears to find the
>sound card 
>
>dmesg gives
>SNIP...
>sb0 at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 on isa
>sb0: <SoundBlaster Pro 3.2>
>sbxvi0 not found
>sbmidi0 not found at 0x330
>SNIP...
>
>However when I try to play a sample file take from the snd-kit
>distribution
>
>cat endoftheworld > /dev/dsp
>
>I get the console error messages
>
>Sound: DMA timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
>Sound: DMA timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
>Sound: DMA timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
>SNIP...
>
>which suggests an IRQ/DRQ conflict.  I have removed lpt0 (normally
>uses IRQ 7) from the kernel config file so I don't see how the IRQ
>can be source of the problem.  Also I cannot find any other entry
>in the kernel config file which uses drq 1.
>
>cat /dev/sndstat gives
>
>VoxWare Sound Driver:3.0-beta-950506 (Sun Feb 5 14:38:12 EST 1995
>freebsd-hacke)
>Config options: ffffffff
>
>Installed drivers:
>Type 2: SoundBlaster
>Type 6: SoundBlaster16
>Type 7: SB16 MIDI
>
>
>Card config:
>SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1
>(SoundBlaster16 at 0x0 irq 65535 drq 5)
>(SB16 MIDI at 0x330 irq 65535 drq 4294967295)
>
>Audio devices:
>0: SoundBlaster Pro 3.2
>
>Synth devices:
>
>Midi devices:
>0: SoundBlaster
>
>Timers:
>0: System Timer
>
>Mixers:
>0: SoundBlaster   
>
>Is there a way to determine what IRQs/ DRQs/DMA channels are currently being
>used by what under FreeBSD which might help
>me to track down the problem ? I don't think there are any jumpers
>to set to force the sound card to a known IRQ/DRQ etc.
>
>TIA
>Graeme N Brown
>BT laboratories, UK
>email: graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk
>
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