Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:19:50 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Your Master <your_master@techie.com> Subject: Re: Sound Help Message-ID: <3947E8E6.5926C324@gmx.de> References: <386787506.960949651556.JavaMail.root@web431-mc.mail.com>
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This card definitely works for me. But I also faced some problems. > im desperately trying to get sound to work under freebsd 4.0 > i have a Crative SB AWE64 Gold sound card... ive been trying and i > recompile the kernel about 10 times now.. has anyone gotten the card > to work? i would really appreciate some help So did I one week ago. > what lines do i have to add to the kernel?? You need only: device pcm device sbc0 For your Joystick device joy0 at isa? port IO_GAME The problem is to make sure your system knows all irqs used by other devices. I had a ethernet card on irq 5 and my usb-device on irq 9. So I had to compile in all devices including ed0 and usb (with uhci,...). In answers you can often read lines like: device sbc0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 as proposed in LINT. But all of them only repeat the standard settings, the sbc-driver would use as PnP-defaults in any way. If there is something on this irq, your card won't work. The mentioned settings are valid during initialisation of your card, so if you compile your kernel with: device sbc0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 and interrupt boot to do: boot -c you can see at the now opening console with ls that your card really is on irq 10 with DMA 1 and 5. After quitting the console with q, the boot process will continue. But as the sbc0-driver is started later on, it will use the settings of PnP. If your system knows nothing about your usb using irq 9, but knows the device using irq 5, it will then set your card back to irq 9 DMA 0 and 5 (because it is the next standard proposal the AWE gives the PnP system) as you can see later printed on your screen. (do you know dmesg, to later view the boot messages again?) If you compiled in support for the device using irq 9 (usb in my case) the sbc0 driver will correctly choose the next proposal given by the AWE pnp-information. That is irq 10 DMA 0 and 5. Now your card will work (at least mine does). BTW, if you see something like isa0: too many dependant configs (8) during kernel boot, that is also your AWE which gives too much proposals for different possible PnP-configurations. So, now my card works. Still open questions are: - How do I force my card to use certain irq and DMA? I.e. to tell the sbc0 driver not to readjust the initial correct settings.(In all other systems Linux, Win, BeOS I use irq 10,DMA 1(!)and 5, so I see possible conflicts, when doing only a warm reboot between OS changes, which won't reinitialise the sound card.) - How to use the Wavetable abilities of the AWE? The old awe-driver will only work with the VOXWARE drivers, which is deprecated now. Besides there is no pnp-driver left in 4.0 kernel, so all old descriptions how to do it for 3.x BSD won't work anymore. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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