From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 15:11:10 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA25476 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 15:11:10 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA25470 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 15:11:07 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA00766; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 15:10:22 -0800 Message-Id: <199503092310.PAA00766@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Garrett Wollman cc: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner), questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GUS woes In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Mar 1995 15:01:54 EST." <9503092001.AA12525@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 15:10:22 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ><ner) said: > >> I have a 512K gus with a different video card and scsi drives but otherwise >> match your configuration. I rebuilt current last night and could play >> au files. If I initialized the card with DOS, the volume was even loud. >> I tried the ultrasnd whatnow3.mod and it sounded great but there where >> "computer pops and cracks" interspersed with the music. Volume control >> worked. > >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? > >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? > >-GAWollman This mornings kernel was the first time in a long time I even attempted to configure for my GUS 3.4. The audio works fine, but dsp output is garbled. I was able to hang the machine after trying some .wav files through nas. It's definitely a step in the right direction. I didn't even have to init the card from DOS! > >-- >Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... >wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. >Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like peopl >e >MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================