From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 06:26:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA15132 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 06:26:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA15124 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 06:26:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from owensc@localhost) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.11/8.7.2 rev 08/22/95) id JAA23540; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 09:22:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 09:22:59 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Owens To: Werner Griessl cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Soundblaster only plays 1 sec of .au file In-Reply-To: <199512060835.JAA18120@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Werner Griessl wrote: > > > > > > I don't play *.au files or XBoing very much (both of which seem to use > > my SoundBlaster's FM channel), but I just noticed that from either source > > only 1 second of sound will actually be produced. > > > > For example, if I do > > echo foo.au >/dev/audio, (where foo.au is supposed to last 2 seconds) > > I'll hear one second of audio and then just static, and the command will > > NEVER end (it seems) until I hit CTRL-C. > > > > I if I play XBoing with sound turned on, after 1 second of the intro > > sounds it freezes and, again, I have to exit it with CTRL-C. > > > > What could be causing this? > > Had the same problem with my sb16 ! > Switching the IRQ from 7 to 9(2) onto the card and in the Kernel config file > solved the problem. Duh, I now recall that when I installed a second Ethernet card I had to move the SoundBlaster's IRQ.... I apparantly never reconfigured it on my next reboot. Numb as a hake (sp?), as they say. :-) Thanks to all who replied, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------