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Date:      Sat, 10 May 1997 22:37:31 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: which sound card? 
Message-ID:  <199705110537.WAA01005@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 May 1997 12:33:15 -1000." <199705102233.MAA12770@pegasus.com> 

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Please, send me the output of :

cat /dev/sndstat

	Tnks,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Richard Foulk :
> } >From The Desk Of Richard Foulk :
> } > Aloha,  any recommendations on a decent sound card that works
> } > with 2.2?  Other than a GUS PnP that is.  I've got one of those and
> } > it doesn't work very well with my AMD 486.
> } > 
> } > 
> } 
> } Care to elaborate on the problem that you are having with the GUS PnP?
> } 
> } 	Tnks,
> } 	Amancio
> } 
> 
> It has always looped until you kill the process doing the playing.  At
> the moment it just plays garbage forever and displays this on the console:
> 
> 	isa_dmastart: channel 3 busy
> 
> Before it would play the first selection over and over until you killed
> it.  Then if you played another selection that was smaller it would
> play it first, then the remaining part of the previous selection
> that was still in the buffer and then loop forever.
> 
> I've added a Cyclades serial card and switched ether cards which may
> account for the change in symptoms.  It has never worked right, through
> a number of different versions of FreeBSD.
> 
> More than you wanted to know:
> 
> ----
> FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A #0: Tue May  6 23:17:53 HST 1997
>     richard@ms.pegasus.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ms2
> Calibrating clock(s) relative to mc146818A clock ... i8254 clock: 1193717 Hz
> CPU: AMD Am5x86 Write-Back (486-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x4f4
> real memory  = 67108864 (65536K bytes)
> avail memory = 62251008 (60792K bytes)
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
> chip0 <SiS 85c496> rev 49 on pci0:5
> ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 9 on pci0:11
> ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
> ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
> (ahc0:0:0): "Quantum XP34300W L912" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
> sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 4101MB (8399520 512 byte sectors)
> vx0 <3COM 3C590 Etherlink III PCI> rev 0 int a irq 10 on pci0:13
> utp/aui/bnc[*bnc*]: disable 'auto select' with DOS util! address 00:a0:24:bd:
a0:
> b7
> vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 6 int a irq 11 on pci0:15
> Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
> sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
> sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
> sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
> sio0: type 16550A
> sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
> sio1: type 16550A
> sio2: disabled, not probed.
> sio3: disabled, not probed.
> lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> lp0: TCP/IP capable interface
> cy0 irq 10 maddr 0xd4000 msize 8192 on isa
> fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
> fdc0: NEC 765
> fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
> npx0 on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> Checking for GUS Plug-n-Play ...
> Board Vendor ID: GRV0001     Board Serial Number: 00000001
> gus0 at 0x220 irq 11 drq 1 flags 0x3 on isa
>  at 0x32c dma 3,1
>  at 0x220 irq 11 dma 1,3
> 
> changing root device to sd0a
> ----
> 
> 
> Richard





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