Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 08:46:14 -0400 (EDT) From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) To: marcusg@elec.uq.edu.au (Marcus Gallagher) Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/SoundBlaster awe32 problems... Message-ID: <199608121246.IAA01889@elmer.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <320EAD84.41C67EA6@elec.uq.edu.au> from "Marcus Gallagher" at Aug 12, 96 02:05:24 pm
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Marcus Gallagher:
>System is:
>Pentuim box, FreeBSD2.1, Creative labs awe32 16bit soundblaster card.
>
>The relevant section in my kernel looks like this:
>
>controller snd0
>device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 conflicts drq 1 vector sbintr
>device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5
>device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330
>device opl0 at isa? port 0x388
>
>However, when I try and cat a .au file to /dev/audio, I get no sound,
>and the cat process just hangs there, ie cursor is not returned, and
I have a Sound Blaster 32, and if it helps I can tell you mine works on the
2.1 drivers. Here are some things that come to mind:
1) Try:
cd /dev
ls -l audio
sh MAKEDEV snd0
ls -l audio
See if you get a change in the device numbers.
2) The default volume should be OK, so that probably isn't it
3) IRQ 5 sounds right for the default card config. Might make sure the
cards isn't on 7 (the other common one).
By the way, if nothing else is on IRQ 5, don't think you need "conflicts".
4) Do you have a serial port using IRQ 5 too?
5) Is DMA 1 only used by the sound card? You also might check your
BIOS config and verify that it and DMA 5, IRQ 7 are allocated for use
on the ISA bus.
Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com
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