Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:17:41 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> To: Neil Smith <neil@fgate.flevel.co.uk> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DMA timed out with Soundblaster Pro soundcard Message-ID: <19970624161741.24051@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970624150318.neil@flevel.co.uk>; from Neil Smith on Tue, Jun 24, 1997 at 02:55:26PM %2B0100 References: <XFMail.970624150318.neil@flevel.co.uk>
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Neil Smith scribbled this message on Jun 24: > > Hi all. > > I'm using FREEBSD 2.2.2 RELEASE. > > I'm trying to get a Soundblaster Pro (8bit) soundcard working. When I cat I have almost the exact same card (rev 3.1 though)... > an .au file to /dev/audio, I get bursts of sample (sounding correct), with > 1 second (approx) pauses in between. The bursts of sample only last > perhaps 0.2 seconds. this sounds like a IRQ problem... as the sound driver isn't getting notified that the buffer is [partially] done playing and needs to load it up again... > I've tried different irq's, drq's etc. using the user config, but exactly > the same thing happens. this alomst might be a problem with conflicts with a lpt port... right now I have my sbpro on irq 10 just to keep it out of the way... just match the kernel with the jumpers on the card... hope you get it working... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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