Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:55:18 -0700 (PDT) From: b <bryanw@666.org> To: drifter@stratos.net Cc: jkb@best.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mp3 & SB16 PnP problems Message-ID: <199807130255.TAA08944@shell3.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <199807122227.SAA05475@somniac.org> from "drifter@stratos.net" at "Jul 12, 98 06:27:26 pm"
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There should be no reason to have to pay $20 to use that product, when it is possible to get the SB16 pnp working for FREE. I laud the efforts of Opensound, but if you are willing to work at it, it is worthwhile to LEARN SOMETHING and configure it with your own effort, and with the help of others on the list. It is an invaluable experience. Incidentally, I cannot get the ESS Es1868 working with the standard code. The OpenSound product works with that nicely. I don't like having to do 'soundon' and 'soundoff'. I'd rather have the sound support built into the kernel. I'll keep trying to get this working without the OpenSound product (since I don't want to pay the $20, and will probably just let the eval version expire..). The problem below is that /dev/dsp is linked to dsp0 instead of dsp1.. Pnp devices are mapped to 1 instead of 0 (the first device is, anyway). Gentle user, please read the documentation that comes with the sound driver. > In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980711214904.27762A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>; from > Jan B. Koum on Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 09:51:46PM -0700 > > On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 09:51:46PM -0700, Jan B. Koum wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I just compiled 2.2.6-RELEASE with Luigi's pnp code. However, when > > I try to play mp3, I get: > > > > 0wn# ./mpg123 /usr/home/jkb/mp3/*.mp3 > > High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. > > Version 0.59k (1997/07/13). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp. > > Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! > > THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! > > Can't open /dev/dsp! > > 0wn# ls -l dsp > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 4 Jul 11 22:52 dsp -> dsp0 > > 0wn# cat sndstat > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (980215) Jul 11 1998 22:26:05 > > Installed devices: > > pcm1: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1:5 > > sequencer1: <???> at 0x388 (not functional) > > 0wn# > > > > Any ideas? Please cc: me -- I am not on the list currently. > > Thanks, > > > > -- Yan > > May I take this space to recommend a commercial resolution to > your problem? > > http://www.opensound.com > > 4Front-Technologies has a commercial sound driver for a mere > $20 -- well worth it if you want to avoid the pain and agony. You can > download an evaluation copy and test it for a week, before registering > for a license. They support a large number of sound cards, including the > SB16. I just grabbed it off their site a couple days ago and > have been very happy with it. > I spent literally /months/ trying to get sound to > work properly on my FreeBSD system. I tried both VoxWare and Luigi's > PnP sound code, but was only able to get 8 bit sound working most of > the time (and 16 bit working 5% of the time, randomly). > Though others managed to get SB16 working on their systems, > getting my SB16 to work was quite possibly the most frustrating experience. > (Even worse than ppp :). Numerous questions to mailing lists, USENET > groups, sound.doc's, hacking soundcard.h's, etc., etc., ad nauseum. > It took me far and wide looking for an answer, but in the end I found > 4Front. Wish I discovered them a long time ago :) > > -Rob > > -- > drifter@stratos.nospam.net (remove nospam to send) > "Am I the only one that cringes every time I hear somebody refer > to a disk drive as a 'solution'? It's bad enough I have to listen to that > marketing hype from vendors, but now it seems to be infiltrating every-day > conversation. I'll decide if that 9GB hard drive is a 'solution' to my > problem or not, thank you very much..." > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- b To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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