From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Oct 29 17:08:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA16488 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 17:08:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from central.picker.com (central.picker.com [144.54.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA16480 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 17:08:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ct.picker.com by central.picker.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #3) id m0vIOz7-0004rlC; Tue, 29 Oct 96 19:58 EST Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com ([144.54.57.34]) by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02120; Tue, 29 Oct 96 19:56:05 EST Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id TAA29491; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 19:55:55 -0500 From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Message-Id: <199610300055.TAA29491@elmer.ct.picker.com> Subject: Re: My sound problems (again) To: marcusg@elec.uq.edu.au (Marcus Gallagher) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 19:55:55 -0500 (EST) Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <32756E93.41C67EA6@elec.uq.edu.au> from "Marcus Gallagher" at Oct 29, 96 12:40:19 pm Reply-To: rhh@ct.picker.com Organization: Picker International, CT Division X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk |Well, I've been playing around with my sound setup again, trying to get |it to work with FreeBSD (v2.1) | |The card is a Creative AWE32. I think the device is probed on bootup |(the speakers pop), and if I do | |mixer vol 100 | |I can hear the speakers "hissing". So why if I do |cat anything.au > /dev/audio |it just hangs there, as for other things (e.g RealAudio, just hangs). |Any help very much appreciated! I've been running the same version of Voxware that you are on a Sound Blaster 32 (AWE32 - mem + vibra) on v2.1 and later versions without any problems (currently running it now on a 2.2 SNAP, except with an EMU8000 MIDI driver added). Should be pretty much the same as your config soundcard hardware-wise. Just a few things come to mind that you might check. 1) Possible IRQ/DMA conflict with another card? 2) do the boot-up messages confirm all the relevent sound drivers are picking up your card?: sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa sb0: sbxvi0 at 0x0 drq 5 on isa sbxvo0: sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa opl0 at 0x388 on isa opl0: 3) if you're running a PCI motherboard, do you have IRQ5, DMA 1, and DMA 5 reserved for ISA in your BIOS? And 4) Is your AWE PNP? Randall rhh@ct.picker.com