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From: Howard Lew <hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU>
To: Mohd Hisham HajiIsmail <hajiisma@ecn.purdue.edu>
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Subject: Re: wow... got sound.. but!
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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Mohd Hisham HajiIsmail wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Howard Lew wrote:
> 
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, 1 & 3 are correct.  The mixer is also there in /dev, but I am not
> > > > sure how to turn up the volume.  I tried using cam, but for the sound
> > > > blaster mode, it keeps saying: 
> > > > 
> > > > SOUND_MIXER_READ_DEVMASK : Error reading /dev/mixer
> > 
> > Yes, I also tried: sh MAKEDEV snd0, but that did not solve the mixer 
> > error.  Apparently, the code seems to not detect a mixer (although I 
> > know one does exist) because typing mixer gets the device not configured 
> > error.
> > 
> > I looked into the mixer code and I might be able to bluff it by skipping
> > the mixer detection and making it the SoundBlaster Pro mixer by default. 
> > But even if that works, it will only be 8 bit sound instead of 16 bit MSS. 
> > But oh well...  I will be happy to hear any sound.

Oh well, setting the mixer to Sound Blaster Pro by default doesn't do it 
and I still get that mixer error.

> >
> 
> 	How does the booting messages look like?
> 	Maybe we can start from there...

If I configure it for Sound Blaster, I see:

sb0 at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 flags 0x3 on isa
sb0: <SoundBlaster 2.1>
mss0: disabled, not probed.   
opl0 at 0x388 on isa
opl0: <Yamaha OPL-3 FM>
mpu0 at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0 on isa
mpu0: <MPU-401 MIDI Interface 0.0 >

If I configure it for MSS, I see:

sb0: disabled, not probed.
mss0 at 0x530 irq 10 drq 1 on isa
gus0: <MS Sound System (CS4231)>
opl0 at 0x388 on isa
opl0: <Yamaha OPL-3 FM>
mpu0 at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0 on isa
mpu0: <MPU-401 MIDI Interface 0.0 >




> 
> BTW: There's a really handy info about this in the comp.os.bsd.freebsd.misc
>      I forgot how the header looks like
>  
> 


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