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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: wow... got sound.. but!
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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Howard Lew wrote:

> 
> It's been a while since I last played around with the sound configuration
> on FreeBSD without any luck getting it to work for Real Audio.  I have 
> almost decided to give up, but with some luck today, I hear music on it 
> after changing irqs, but now I have run into another problem -- the system 
> reboots after about 3 seconds or so of sound.  If I don't play any sound 
> it does not reboot.
> 
> Sound Card:
> Televideo Multimedia EX16 3D PNP
> * Claims to support Sound Blaster Pro and Windows Sound System
> 
> I have tried the Sound Blaster driver, but I do not hear anything.  It
> pretends to play the music (Real Audio's scroll bar moves and s3mod
> pretends to play), but I hear nothing.  

Did you check that....

1.  the speakers were plugged in and powered properly?
2.  The volume was turned up?  (use mixer)
3.  The devices exist?  (try /dev/MAKEDEV snd0)

> With the MSS driver, both play,
> but both will cause the system to panic and reboot which causes me to
> suspect the sound driver.  The sound that comes through is very clear, but
> unfortunately the system reboots. 

Can't say for the mss driver.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major