From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 13 16:38:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from student-00cdr.williams.edu (student-00cdr.williams.edu [137.165.32.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32CF037BC2E for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:38:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@student-00cdr.williams.edu) Received: by student-00cdr.williams.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4EDC8F8; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:38:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:38:47 -0400 From: Chris Richards To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live! 4.0 (Re: 4.1 date?) Message-ID: <20000413193847.A21405@student-00cdr.williams.edu> References: <025701bfa586$9e4a8db0$dd29680a@tgt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <025701bfa586$9e4a8db0$dd29680a@tgt.com>; from veldy@veldy.net on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 03:26:48PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 03:26:48PM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > Just beware that it may spontaneously reboot your machine. > > Why would it do that? Did it do that for you? In my experience, it seems to consistently do that on Dell XPS T machines (like mine) with ECC memory. The driver loads without incident, but the system reboots with a parity error (NMI, I suppose) as soon as the audio device is opened/written. The same thing happened when I ran Linux with its respective driver. -chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message