From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 7 18:21:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wcug.wwu.edu (sloth.wcug.wwu.edu [140.160.164.200]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D6064124 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 18:21:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28498 invoked by uid 1089); 8 Feb 2000 02:22:18 -0000 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 18:22:18 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Johnson X-Sender: cjohnson@sloth To: Mark Ovens Cc: Walter Brameld , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vibra16/sound problems In-Reply-To: <20000207111528.B1906@marder-1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I do have a PCI SBLive! card that I use under Windows, but it's not an option under FreeBSD. On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 11:11:20PM -0500, Walter Brameld wrote: >=20 > > Your /dev/sndstat is indicating that your card appears on pcm1 > > instead of pcm0. Try recompiling your kernel with pcm1. After > > rebooting, cd to /dev and type "./MAKEDEV snd1". See if that helps. > >=20 >=20 > Yes, but Christopher says the card is ISA and he has ``device > pcm0....'' in the kernel, so the card should be found as pcm0, unless > it is, in fact, a PCI card. >=20 > This is based on something I read (which I can't now find; maybe it > was a thread here on -questions) and my own experience. >=20 > Originally I had an ISA Yamaha OPL3 card, ``device pcm0...'' in my > kernel and the card was indeed found as pcm0. >=20 > Recently I replaced the Yamaha with a SoundBlaster PCI128, a PCI card. > Now FreeBSD, using the *same* kernel, finds the SB as pcm1 and says > pcm0 not found: >=20 > marder-1:/usr/mark{52}% dmesg > Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. > Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #1: Sat Feb 5 13:38:58 GMT 2000 > mark@marder-1:/usr/src/sys/compile/MARDER-1 >=20 > [snip] >=20 > es1: rev 0x06 int a irq 11 on pci0.11.0 > pcm1: using I/O space register mapping at 0x6800 >=20 > [snip] >=20 > pcm0 not found >=20 > The first time I booted with the new card all I had to do was: >=20 > # cd /dev > # ./MAKEDEV snd1 >=20 > This symlinks the sound devices to 1 instead of 0: >=20 > # cd /dev > # ls -lrt >=20 > [snip] >=20 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Feb 5 13:53 mixer -> mixer1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 10 Feb 5 13:53 sequencer -> sequencer1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 4 Feb 5 13:53 dsp -> dsp1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Feb 5 13:53 audio -> audio1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 5 Feb 5 13:53 dspW -> dspW1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Feb 5 13:53 music -> music1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 4 Feb 5 13:53 pss -> pss1 >=20 > I don't think that changing the kernel config file to ``device > pcm1...' will help, I tried that in an attempt to get rid of the > ``pcm0 not found'' boot message, but all that happened was that the SB > was found as pcm2 and the error changed to ``pcm1 not found''. >=20 > So, the immediate fix here is probably to run ``./MAKEDEV snd1'' in > /dev as Walter suggests. That should get sound working, but I'm still > curious as to why the card is found as pcm1. Are you sure it's an > ISA card? >=20 > The only other reason I can think of is that there is built-in sound > on the motherboard that is causing a conflict. >=20 > HTH >=20 > > On Sun, 06 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, > > Christopher Johnson wrote: > > > > > I've been able to get some sound to work with my ISA Soundblaster > > > Vibra16 card, but it's still having problems. I'll try to include > > > as much relevant information as possible, so bear with me. > >=20 > > > After adding: > > > device pcm0 at isa? port ? tty irq 10 drq 1 flags 0x0 > > > and recompiling/installing the kernel, it will work fine with fxtv, b= ut > > > not xmms or aumix, and the volume is stuck at one level. (The 'contro= ller > > > pnp0' line was already in there.) > > >=20 > > > I also have: > > > bash-2.03# cat /dev/sndstat > > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (981002) Feb 6 2000 18:28:23 > > > Installed devices: > > > pcm1: at 0x220 irq 10 dma 1:3 > > > So I presume that the driver is working okay, but it might not be, si= nce > > > dmesg reports: > > > /kernel: pcm0 not probed due to drq conflict with pcm1 at 1 > > >=20 >=20 > OK, this is the strange bit.=20 >=20 > > > Also /var/log/err has: > > > /kernel: cmd xmms pid 18252 tried to use non-present sched_getschedul= er > > > and: > > > /kernel: pcm0: unit not configured, perhaps you want pcm1 ? > > >=20 > > > I'm running 3.4-STABLE on a PII/350 w/256 MB of ram. > > >=20 > > > I think I just have something misconfigured, but being new to FreeBSD= , I > > > don't know where to start. I read the pcm man page, the mixer man pa= ge, > > > the handbook, and the FreeBSD diary, and I'm just not sure what I'm d= oing > > > wrong. sh -x /dev/mixer reports that there is no such device name, a= nd > > > although sh -x /dev/snd0 and snd1 seem to work, I think it's the reas= on I > > > have about 20-25 dsp** entries in /dev. (I did the /dev/snd0 a few ti= mes, > > > because the pcm man page suggested recreating the symlinks) > > >=20 > > > Thanks in advance! > > >=20 > > > Chris Johnson > > > cjohnson@wcug.wwu.edu > > >=20 > > >=20 > > >=20 > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > --=20 > > Walter > >=20 > > in=B7tel=B7lec=B7tu=B7al > > n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. > > P.S. The answer is 42. > >=20 > >=20 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 > --=20 > =09Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? > =09Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? > =09BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? > =09=09=09 -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 > ________________________________________________________________ > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 Chris Johnson cjohnson@wcug.wwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message