From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 13 19:35:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1316B37B5D0; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:35:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA15462; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:35:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38F683EA.A43AA63D@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:35:22 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0409 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Richards Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Cameron Grant Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live! 4.0 (Re: 4.1 date?) References: <025701bfa586$9e4a8db0$dd29680a@tgt.com> <20000413193847.A21405@student-00cdr.williams.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Richards wrote: > > 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. That's interesting. I also have ECC memory, but I didn't see any error messages about it. I have an Asus P2B motherboard, and I'm certain that ECC is turned on. I'm cc'ing the author of the driver here. Doug -- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message