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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account" <babbleon@mercury.interpath.com>
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Subject: Re: Sound questions: ESS688 (SB Pro)
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On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account wrote:

> 
> I have an ESS688 sound chip, which is a SoundBlaster Pro compatible.  Both
> "Dark Forces" and Linux find it to be a perfectly adaquate SoundBlaster, but
> I'm having a wee bit of trouble with FreeBSD.

Oh, joy.  AudioDrive.  :)

> The usual "LINT" line for SB looks like:
> 
>     device sb0      at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 conflicts drq 1 vector sbintr
> 
> But mine is on i/o 3, so I changed it to:

What is i/o 3?  That means nothing.  IRQ 3, you mean?  Or DMA 3?  Or port 
address 0x230?  Please be more specific.

> 
>     device sb0      at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 conflicts drq 3 vector sbintr
> 
> When I boot up, sb0 is recognized as, not just a SoundBlaster, but a
> SoundBlaster Pro.  Cool.
> 
> But when I play something to /dev/audio, I get a "popping" sound once as
> the item starts, and then silence.

Wrong setting.  Probably IRQ.  Researching the above should yield the 
proper answer.  :)

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