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Date:      Sat, 06 Feb 1999 18:07:51 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
To:        "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A moment of sound then silence, or, where did my sound card go?
Message-ID:  <36BC84F7.EA9BAD4E@uk.radan.com>
References:  <36BBB586.3CF5915A@infowest.com>

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"Aaron D. Gifford" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just got sound somewhat working in my 3.0-STABLE kernel (SoundBlaster
> AWE64 card), installed the amp port from (/usr/ports/audio/amp), then tried
> it out:
> 

[snip]

> % cat test.out > /dev/audio
> 
> I hear SCREETCHing sound for about a second, then nothing for about 10
> seconds, then I see:
> 
> cat: stdout: Input/output error
> 
> Here's a cat of /dev/sndstat:
> # cat /dev/sndstat
> 

Have you tried using the pcm driver instead of Voxware? I had exactly
these symptoms with my OPL3 based card, but it works fine now using pcm

HTH


> VoxWare Sound Driver:3.5-alpha15-970902 (Wed Aug  6 22:58:35 PDT 1997
> Amancio Hasty@rah.star-gate.com)
> Config options:
> 
> Installed drivers:
> Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
> Type 2: SoundBlaster
> Type 6: SoundBlaster16
> Type 25: AWE32 Synth
> Type 7: SB16 MIDI
> 
> Card config:
> SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 10 drq 1
> SoundBlaster16 at 0xffffffff irq 1 drq 5
> SB16 MIDI at 0x330 irq 1
> OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 irq 1
> AWE32 Synth at 0x620 irq 1
> 
> Audio devices:
> 0: SoundBlaster 16 4.16
> 
> Synth devices:
> 0: Yamaha OPL-3
> 1: AWE32-0.4.2c (RAM512k)
> 
> Midi devices:
> 0: SoundBlaster 16 Midi
> 
> Timers:
> 0: System clock
> 
> Mixers:
> 0: SoundBlaster
> 1: AWE32 Equalizer
> 
> Any ideas where I should look next?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Aaron out.
> 
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