Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:09:20 -0800 From: Joe Park <joepark@uclink4.berkeley.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: help on sound please Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000314020623.00c81d70@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
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Hello, I finally bought a ensoniq pci audio (es1371 chip) card. First I set up a kernel with just this: ###################### device pcm0 ###################### With that setting, I got sound. dmesg gave me this: ###################### es1: <AudioPCI ES1371> rev 0x08 int a irq 3 on pci0.17.0 pcm1: using I/O space register mapping at 0x1480 es1371: codec vendor CRY revision 19 es1371: codec features Bass & Treble Headphone out 20bit DAC 18bit ADC es1371: stereo enhancement: Crystal Semiconductor 3D Stereo Enhancement ###################### I was not satisfied with sound quality because there were a lot of static noise. Just overall sound quality was worse than how it sounded on evil Window world. Plus, when I do "mixer", bass and treble was 0 and I couldn't change it. So I set up a kernel with following setting, using above informations: ###################### controller pnp0 device pcm0 at isa? port 0x1480 tty irq 3 drq 1 flags 0x17 vector pcmintr ###################### After that, it worked just the same. I did "sh /dev/MAKEDEV snd0" but I don't see snd0 in /dev.(Do I need to do this every time I restart? Do I even need to do this? I mean it worked before I executed that command...I'm guessing it's needed for mixer functions) When I did "mixer", it says "mixer: /dev/mixer: Device not configured" I remember dmesg gave me identical messages as above. And that was yesterday. Today, it appears that my roommate just pressed reset button while I was gone. (I see that my drive was not unmounted properly) When I reboot, the sound worked for a while. While I was playing MP3, I did "sh /dev/MAKEDEV snd0" as root. (in attempt to bring mixer to work) A bit later, sound just stopped. dmesg gave me rows after rows of "pcm0: unit not configured, perhaps you want pcm1 ? " And for some wield reason, my custom prompt stop working. Instead of useful info like current directory, time, etc, my prompt now gives me this : \n***** \! *** <\u@\h> *** $(dirs) *****\n\t \$ I configured prompt at .profile file (I'm using bash) I rebuilt kernel again, thinking that it will fix the problem, but gave me same result. The initial dmesg while it was booting gave me correct messages regarding sound card (same as above). But I can't play any sound. Can anyone help me? I think I probably can get my sound back after tweaking around a bit but I still can't figure out how to improve sound quality. Any comments from people who has Ensoniq AudioPCI are appreciated. (Is yours sound ok?) Does anyone know what exactly happened here? I mean, why my prompt all of sudden stop working? My other FreeBSD box with exact same .profile works. I'm using bash and FreeBSD is 3.4-stable. Sorry for long messages and thank you for help. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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