Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 10:28:02 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: frank@exit.com Cc: crichard-freebsd@wso.williams.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, cg@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live! 4.0 (Re: 4.1 date?) Message-ID: <200004171728.KAA27999@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200004171502.IAA08599@realtime.exit.com> from Frank Mayhar at "Apr 17, 0 08:02:50 am"
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As I recall, Frank Mayhar wrote: > Well, I'm guessing that it's the card itself generating the NMIs > because it wasn't initialized correctly by the driver. Of course, > Cameron should be the one to answer this, and so far I haven't seen > him chime in. Except most PC hardware has no trace on the buss for NMI; add in cards can't generate it. > ECC memory seems to be the common denominator; it may be that the card > is doing Bad Things to the bus during memory accesses. I don't know, > I don't have specs for the card so I can't really make any kind of > educated guess, but I certainly hope this helps Cameron figure it out. That's the big hint. NMIs are generated when error correcting (ECC) or error detecting (parity) memory has an uncorrected error. Does this card have on-board memory? Or is it doing DMA transfers? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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