From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 16:32:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16036 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 16:32:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from blues.jpj.net (benh@blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15979 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 16:32:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benh@blues.jpj.net) Received: from localhost (benh@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (backatcha) with SMTP id TAA21292 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 19:31:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 19:31:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Hockenhull To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SoundBlaster problems (DMA?) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sad to say, I was recently bitten by the mp3 bug and figured I'd (finally) install a sound card in my home box so I could play some music while I work. Home box is a p166, 96 meg of ram, FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE. I aquired a SoundBlaster 16 Pro PnP, made a new kernel with sb0 support, installed the card and rebooted. All appeared to be well. The kernel found the card: sb0 at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 on isa sb0: CD playthrough works just fine, no problems there. However, when I go to play an mp3, it fails miserably. The sound (if you can call it that) is choppy, at best. The kernel logs a number of these errors to /var/log/messages: Sound: DMA timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? Sound: DMA timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? Sound: DMA timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? The mp3's in question are known good files, so that isn't the problem. I thought I might have to compile in pnp support (necessitating an upgrade to 2.2.6) on my box to make the card work, but that seems not to be the case. Perhaps I got lucky. At any rate, I'm trying to figure out what is wrong. I'm guessing it is a card config problem. Any ideas? Ben -- Ben Hockenhull benh@jpj.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message