From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Mar 31 9: 9: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from oberon.dnai.com (oberon.dnai.com [207.181.194.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC46237B5E8 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:09:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kmarx@bigshed.com) Received: from bigshed.com (dnai-216-15-97-193.cust.dnai.com [216.15.97.193]) by oberon.dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA80195; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:08:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38E4DC7E.68F651C9@bigshed.com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:12:30 -0800 From: Ken Marx X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grigoriy Strokin Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0/pci128/.wav's References: <38E4D68F.5CD558DC@bigshed.com> <20000331205142.B45857@isabase.philol.msu.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Grigoriy, Very interesting. We've noticed that doing a cat file.au > /dev/audio (or /dev/dsp) seems ok. Maybe there's something funky with the ioctl support for one of the GET/SET_xxx commands? Have you by chance found a PCI sound card for which this bad behavior *doesn't* occur? I've got a sinking feeling that I'm going to be adding printf's to the driver by next week sometime... bleh. thanks, k. Grigoriy Strokin wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:47:11AM -0800, Ken Marx wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a Creative PCI128 (ES1371) (two different models actually). > > > > Running 4.0-RELEASE. > > > > Very strange behavior: mp3's work, cat'ing .au's works, but > > playing wavefiles fails. And it fails *without error*. > > > > For example, waveplay file.wav 'successfully' opens the device > > and pumps all the data to /dev/dsp. But it does this almost instantly > > with no sound being played. > > > > Every once in a great while, it might actually play something > > but it usually doesn't. > > > > These cards both seem to work in a different box that has > > 5.0 on it, and previously ran 4.0. > > > > Couldn't find anything on this in the archives. > > Motherboard? BIOS?... > > > > I have a similar problem with Ensoniq SB PCI64 (ES1370). > If I play something with sox, using 'play', say > $ play a.au > it plays it for the first time. If I immediately > type the same command again, play returns with no sound played. > If I wait several seconds and then retry, the sound is played > again. > > Even worse with recording audio (using 'rec' from sox). > One time something is really recorded, another > time what gets recorded is a random white noise > of high intensity. > > -- > === Grigoriy Strokin, Lomonosov University (MGU), Moscow === > === contact info: http://isabase.philol.msu.ru/~grg/ === -- Ken Marx, kmarx@bigshed.com We are at risk unless we improve predictability and revise the expectations surrounding the document. - http://cgi.bigshed.com/~kmarx/cgi-bin/speak.cgi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message