Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:00:02 -0600 From: Bob Giesen <BobGiesen@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SoundBlaster Live! or PCI512 help Message-ID: <E16Z0Ke-0007iE-00@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net>
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I have a SoundBlaster PCI512 -- which, I've read, is essentially the same as a Live! card. I can't get mine to make a sound in FBSD. (Sings like a canary in m$, so I know it works...) If you're familiar with getting either (PCI512 or Live!) card working and have spotted anything I've missed or screwed up, I'd love to hear from you. I have been searching the FBSD site and Googling the web (oh, yes, I've RTFM, too:-) ) and am coming up short. I've found several references to getting these cards working, but I've tried all that I've found and my speakers still sit silently... Here's what I've done: I've compiled a new kernel with device pcm: ... device pcm ... The kernel now finds the card at bootup: pci0: <PCI buson pcib0 pcm0: <Creative EMU10K1port 0xe000-0xe01f irq 5 at device 9.0 on pci0 I feel that I should note here that I have my BIOS' "PnP OS" option set to "No." My kernel shows the same irq (5) as my BIOS shows during the POST. Per instructions, I tried the following: $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Feb 1 2002 02:14:09 Installed devices: pcm0: <Creative EMU10K1at io 0xe000 irq 5 (4p/3r/0v channels duplex) Next, I ran /dev/MAKEDEV snd0 and looked for the new devices that the handbook said (in section 14.4) would be created: # cd /dev # ls -l audio* dsp* dspW* midi* mixer* music* sequencer* pss* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Feb 7 19:39 audio -> audio0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 8 Feb 7 19:39 audio0 -> audio0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 4 Feb 7 19:39 audio0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00010004 Feb 7 19:39 audio0.1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00020004 Feb 7 19:39 audio0.2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00030004 Feb 7 19:39 audio0.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 4 Feb 7 19:39 dsp -> dsp0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Feb 7 19:39 dsp0 -> dsp0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 3 Feb 7 19:39 dsp0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00010003 Feb 7 19:39 dsp0.1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00020003 Feb 7 19:39 dsp0.2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00030003 Feb 7 19:39 dsp0.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 5 Feb 7 19:39 dspW -> dspW0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 5 Feb 7 19:39 dspW -> dspW0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 7 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0 -> dspW0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 7 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0 -> dspW0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 5 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 5 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00010005 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00010005 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00020005 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00020005 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00030005 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00030005 Feb 7 19:39 dspW0.3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 2 Feb 7 19:39 midi0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Feb 7 19:39 mixer -> mixer0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0 Feb 7 19:39 mixer0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Feb 7 19:39 music -> music0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 8 Feb 7 19:39 music0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 4 Feb 7 19:39 pss -> pss0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 9 Feb 7 19:39 pss0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 10 Feb 7 19:39 sequencer -> sequencer0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 1 Feb 7 19:39 sequencer0 The handbook listed the "midi" device, but I got only a "midi0" device. Is that okay? The handbook recommended re-making the devices if one or more were missing, so I did so. Still, I got no "midi" device. Anyway, I've tried several different tools that should play audio CD's, wav and/or mp3 files, and not a peep emerges from my speakers. (Yes, they're amplified and turned on.) As for the app's I've tried -- I've tried the CD player that comes w/ Gnome (which correctly identifies different CD's via the database on the net and seems to be playing them (as the elapsed track time changes in the display)), but no sound comes out. Curiously, I just tried a different command (about which I know very little, so I might have used it wrong) and got an odd error: # play /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/sounds/info.wav sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device busy Any ideas? Is there a sure-fire way to test my setup (in case I'm just using sound app's incorrectly)? Any and all help will be thoroughly appreciated. Thanks, Bob ------------------------------------------------------- -- Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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