Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 01:16:55 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vat and X lockup Message-ID: <199603060916.BAA03746@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Mar 1996 16:02:28 CST." <199603052202.QAA06160@plains.nodak.edu>
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>>> Mark Tinguely said:
>
> we have a 133 pentium (asus pipe-line cache and edo ram), SMC power
> ethernet, meteor, GUS MAX, Logitech mouse (tried it as a serial and PS/2
> with no change), ISA ATI Mach 64 video [yeah it should be a PCI
> video but we needed the fourth PCI slot and the only X I could get to work w
ith
Try a different video card since you are using a SVGA server it should not
be too hard.
> I even pulled down Amanico's new sound drivers. it took me a while to
> find the fine print that says GUS MAX should link /dev/audio to /dev/audio1.
Okay, I will move up the comment in my the file rah.star-gate.com:/pub/Vat.info
> By the way I could play all I want with new drivers with /dev/audio linked
> to /dev/audio0, I simply got no sound.
I am worry about this because it should work.
> ***inbedded documentation question for Jim Lowe, just to see if he is
> ***paying attention: the information about the new sound drivers looks
> ***easy enough for me to add to my multimedia web page, is it still
> ***true that vmix does not work with the new sound drivers or was that
> ***changed with your newest sources?
Well, I am paying attention 8)
It will be great if you can add documentation on how to run vat and
friends with the new sound driver. If you do and if you don't mind
I can also modify vat that upon start up it prints a message
pointing to your web page. You see the tool has to be strongly
correlated to the documentation otherwise people are just going
to post back to the mailing lists . Hopefully, a cool web page
will be incentive enough for some to actually read the documentation 8)
That is the case vmix has not been updated to use the new full duplex
sound driver which is sort of okay since the new sound driver works
mostly with GUS cards and I am not too sure about SB stuff.
> there shouldn't be an IRQ duplication. The DOS setup liked IRQ 5 and DRQ 1 a
nd
> 3. The sound card works great (for hours) when X is not running. When I was
> running the FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE sound code, I even pulled out the ISA Mach
> 64, and put in a PCI Mach 64 with the acellerated server and it ran much lon
ger
> and took more mouse abuse, but evenually the sound card started to whistle a
nd
> the machine locked up. I used the mouse as a serial and as a PS/2 mouse, no
> difference.
>
> I guess someone is going to tell me to pull the edo memory because edo and
> pipeline caches are bad, I will do this tommorrow. can anyone think of
> anything else?
Sure , move the card to a different slot --- trust me I have seen
enought problems with poorly seated cards.
Check your PCI Timers and if you can your ISA bus clock timing values.
You may also be having problems with the VM system I remember Jim and
I having problems with capturing video 640*480 just instantly crashing
the system and in my case vat + vic would bring the system to a sure
death. I ended up moving the matrox vm pages up a little and that cured
my problem and on Jim's case a few revs of current and I think that
his problem went away. Whatever the original source of the problem
was weird and I am so glad that is gone ...
Amancio
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