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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 1999 06:13:26 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Reinier Bezuidenhout <rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), mattj@maine.rr.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sound card problems (Yamaha xg) 
Message-ID:  <199910111313.GAA12378@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Oct 1999 08:47:47 %2B0200." <199910110647.IAA22307@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> 

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> Hi ...
> 
> I am running 4.0-CURRENT with an onboard YMF724C as far as I gather. I tried
> the OSS approach and found that after a few minutes my system would either
> freeze or panic ... I susspect they have a nice bug in their kld.  (I used
> their 4.0 oss version). I mailed them about the problem and they just said,
> sorry ... but if that is what is happening it would take some time to fix,
> and it didn't seem like it would be soon.

Given the speed at which -current is changing, I wouldn't be accusing 
their KLD of being buggy so much as just not absolutely up to date.

Their 724 driver is actually pretty stable; I've run it for days at a 
time under -stable with no problems.

> :(
> 
> So I used my old ESS sound card instead.
> 
> Reinier
> 
> > > vendor "Yamaha", unknown product 0xd (class multimedia, subclass audio,
> > > rev 0x03) at pci0 dev 17 function 0 not configured
> > > 
> > > This and consulting efnet #freebsd leads me to believe this card is
> > > a Yamaha xg based PCI sound card.
> > 
> > Sounds like a YMF724 or similar; supported by OSS (www.opensound.com).
> > 
> > -- 
> > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
> > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
> > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com
> > 
> > 
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