From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 12:11:40 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA21010 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 12:11:40 -0800 Received: from devnull.mpd.tandem.com (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA21004 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 12:11:35 -0800 Received: from olympus by devnull.mpd.tandem.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id OAA16751; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:11:19 -0600 Received: by olympus (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA17107; Thu, 9 Mar 95 14:09:50 CST From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Message-Id: <9503092009.AA17107@olympus> Subject: Re: GUS woes To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:09:49 -0600 (CST) Cc: faulkner@devnull.mpd.tandem.com, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9503092001.AA12525@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Mar 9, 95 03:01:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1324 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > < > I have a GUS MAX that I've been trying to get to work with no success > for the past few generations of the sound driver. This may be because > my machine can't run DOS (and therefore Gravis' DOS initialization > program). If it is to be of use to me, I need the card to work > without requiring DOS. Can anyone with more experience in dealing > with these things comment? I boot dos from a diskette and initialize the card. > > BTW, the failure mode that I see is that, in playing an audio file, > the first second or three comes out just fine (but LOUD), and then > something gets stuck in an infinite loop playing the same sound over > and over again. The play program gets stuck in an uninterruptible > wait in the audio driver (ick!). Perhaps an IRQ register isn't > getting initialized right? I got stuck on boot once, hanging on the GUS. That is when I pulled out the dos init prog. They say Dos init isn't required anymore but I don't quite believe it, yet. > > -GAWollman > > -- -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________