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Date:      22 Aug 2003 11:30:45 -0400
From:      Matt Gostick <matt@virtualservice.com>
To:        Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sound card woes
Message-ID:  <1061566245.2112.7.camel@elbow.virtualservice.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030820210426.GB17259@momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx>
References:  <1061407254.974.40.camel@elbow.virtualservice.com> <20030820210426.GB17259@momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx>

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On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 17:04, Szilveszter Adam wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:20:55PM -0400, Matt Gostick wrote:
> > I have a SND Blaster 16 in my computer.  I was using FreeBSD 4.8 and
> > 'device pcm' in my kernel config file, worked great.  I've completely
> > re-installed with 5.1R and recompiled my kernel with 'device pcm'. 
> > Unfortunately sound doesn't work.
> 
> You also could add 'device sbc' to your kernel config since that is the
> SB bridge driver. But the card should work with PCM only. 
> 
> What does 'cat /dev/sndstat' say?

# cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <SB16 DSP 4.16 (ViBRA16X)> at io 0x220 irq 7 drq 0 bufsz 4096d (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default)

cat test.wav > /dev/dsp makes a sound...  but it isn't exactly what
test.wav should sound like.

> The issue is probably some resource conflict. Since you have an SB 16,
> I'll have to ask: is it ISA? Or ISAPnP? Or PCI? PCI should "just work"
> but if it is ISA, you will need some tweaking.

It is an ISA card... very old.  Should I try and dig up a PCI card, or
is it going to fairly 'painless' tweaking?  Where should I start
tweaking?

Matt.



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