Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 22:56:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Adam D. Gorski" <agorski@engin.umich.edu> To: John Utz <john@utzweb.net> Cc: <freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SB problem (was: Cat'ing /dev/audio) SOLVED!!! Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.33.0203292246420.13479-100000@and.engin.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203291903030.11448-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net>
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Ok! The sound is working... let me give you a rundown of what happened... I couldn't get anything to work, as you all have noticed, so I sorta gave up. One of the guys who has an SB16 working under FreeBSD wouldn't let the matter go that easily, and he somehow obtained an Ensoniqu es1371 card. He told me to try it, and that if that didn't work, he didn't know what would. I took the card, put it in my box, fired it up, it got detected... but the sound was still screeching... even worse than before. Thinking that this could be an IRQ problem, I decided to gut my box. I took out both NIC cards, and disabled both IDE controllers in the BIOS. All I had left was my video card, my sound card, and my Promise PCI controller that connect to the IBM (FreeBSD) drive. I fired the box up, everything booted, the Ensonique was detected... but the sound was still shitty... better, but shitty. I basically said "screw this" and shut the box down... now, my box doesn't shut off automatically (since I have a UPS that I want to shut down with apcupsd in case of power failiure) so I turned it off by hand as many times before in the past 3 days... it sorta did a reset in a way, but I powered it down right after, not giving it a second thought. I put all cards back in, and decided to go back to my SB PCI 64 (es1370) since.. well, I dunno why, just did. I go to turn the PC on... nothing. Dead. I freak out. I try agian. Nothing. I unplug it, plug it back in, still zilch. I reset my UPS, but I just can't get the box to power up! I thought I blew my power supply and felt like crying for a while... I unplugged it once more and left it unplugged for 3 minutes or so.. plugged it back in, and bam! It powered up. I went into the BIOS to turn my onboard IDE controllers back on, but they already were... "what's this?" I thought. Turns out, somehow my BIOS got reset... I must have caused some sort of power surge and it wiped it. I checked all settings and noted that all were as I always had them, except something called "PCI Bus timer" or something like that... I had it set to 0 (don't remember ever chaning it though), now it was 32. I figure why mess with BIOS defaults that I know nothing about, so I left it. I booted into FreeBSD, and just for the hell of it, I tried an mp3... sweet monkey's uncle! It worked! Not a crackle, not a squeek, nothing! Pure crystal music! So uhm... what solved it? I guess manually resetting the BIOS... that's about the only thing I can think of. Maybe somehow, somwhere, over the past few years I changed something that Linux accepted (or ignored the dumb luser), but BSD took seriously... no clue. Either way, I just wanted to update you all with this (short story), and thank you all for responding! I am on my way to tweaking this box more, now that I can listen to some pretty music while doing it :) I knew _we_ could do it, - Adam On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, John Utz wrote: ::you have pretty much exhausted all of the things that i can think off. :: ::if you get it to work, plz let me know :-( :: ::On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Adam D. Gorski wrote: :: ::> Ok, several responses to various recommendations/ideas are included here.. ::> first off.. I installed sox and performed the suggested downsampling. I took ::> a 44khz wav file and converted it to 38Khz, 22Khz, and 8Khz... all wav files ::> prdouced the same screeching as the 44Khz one. ::> ::> Next, I recompiled mpg123 and my kernel with i386 instead of p2 in ::> make.conf. That made no difference. ::> ::> I built my system up from source. After an initial 'bare' console install, I ::> did a cvsup to get /usr/src and /usr/ports, made world, made the kernel, ::> made X, etc., all using the optimizations I've mentioned. I do everything ::> 'properly' if you will, so for the kernel I started with the GENERIC file ::> which I modified based on reading LINT and various documents, and I compiled ::> it using 'make kernel KERNCONF=MYCONF'. As far as I know, I have done ::> everything 'according to the rules.' ::> ::> As I've said, 2 of my friends run the exact same card under 4.5 with no ::> problems... but let's not forget that my SP 64 (es1370) experiences the same ::> problem. It _could_ be that my clock is fast, but that would be odd... my ::> system was pretty good back in 98 when I built it.. just in case any of this ::> means anything: ::> ::> Asus P2B w/ P2-450 ::> Matrox G200 ::> 256MB ram ::> Promise ATA/100 Controller -> IBM Deskstar 20 gig, 7200 (BSD's Home :)) ::> Various other driver, nics, etc. ::> ::> The box has been humming flawlessly since I've put it together, with almost ::> no down time (other than moving from apartment to apartment). It ran Win98 ::> fine back in the day, then housed Linux for 2+ years... I figured I'd have ::> seen problems if there were any serious ones. ::> ::> Sorry to all those who don't give a crap, I didn't mean to spam this list ::> with my rather minor problem, but I don't really know who else to turn to :\ ::> ::> - Adam ::> ::> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, John Utz wrote: ::> ::> ::On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Adam D. Gorski wrote: ::> :: ::> ::> Well, I re-compiled mpg123 for i386, but it's still crackling... did you ::> ::> mean that I should recompile my whole system form the bottom up? I hope ::> ::> not... ::> :: ::> ::did you recompile the entire box with p2? if you did, then you probably ::> ::should recompile the whole thing. ::> :: ::> ::if you just compiled the kernel and the mods with p2, then just recompile ::> ::and reinstall those. ::> :: ::> ::refresh my memory, did you rebuild the whole machine from src? or did u ::> ::just do the kernel? ::> :: ::> ::and if you just did the kernel, did u just copy the kernel up to / or did ::> ::you do a make install? ::> :: ::> ::if you rebuilt the kernel and modules but didnt do a make install and ::> ::copied the kernel to / instead, then you have a kernel that was built with ::> ::p2 and modules that where not. ::> :: ::> ::> - Adam ::> ::> ::> ::> ::my current supposition is a math error, because i know that gcc with the ::> ::> ::more specialized cpu architecture setups isnt particularly well tested, ::> ::> ::and it's tested even less on freebsd! furthermore, preparing oggs and ::> ::> ::mp3's for play is a math intensive process, so any goof ups in the math ::> ::> ::code would be painfully evident. ::> ::> :: ::> ::> ::but, i am guessing. ::> ::> :: ::> ::> :: ::> ::> :: ::> ::> ::> Rahul ::> ::> ::> ::> ::> :: ::> ::> ::-- ::> ::> :: ::> ::> ::John L. 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