From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 17:31:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23432 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 17:31:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgw01.execpc.com (mailgw01.execpc.com [169.207.2.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23405 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 17:31:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fpawlak@execpc.com) Received: from darkstar.connect.com (kashyyyk-1-82.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.131.82]) by mailgw01.execpc.com (8.9.0) id TAA20403; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 19:31:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: from darkstar.connect.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by darkstar.connect.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA00881; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 19:31:34 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199807090031.TAA00881@darkstar.connect.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 19:31:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Pawlak Subject: Re: SoundBlaster problems (DMA?) To: benh@jpj.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 8 Jul, Ben Hockenhull wrote: > 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 You might want to get the latest sound drivers from the web page and install them and re-build your kernel according to the instructions included with the drivers. Frank -- ----------------------------- "At no time is freedom of speech more precious then when a man hits his thumb with a hammer." -- Marshall Lumsden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message