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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:51:48 +0600 (ESS)
From:      Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>
To:        Fredrik Carlen <fredrik.carlen@telia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Musician with Sound problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910251350270.283-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>
In-Reply-To: <99102423075800.00533@orcslayer.leonis.net>

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On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Fredrik Carlen wrote:

> It seems like a whole lotta people have troubles getting their soundcards to
> work on this mailing list, and to be frank, so have I. I'm not expecting
> someone to solve my problems, just gimme something to work with. I _have_ read
> all of the sound related stuff in "The complete FreeBSD", so I think I need
> something else...
> 
> The sound related stuff in dmesg is :
>  "sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa 

you may want to use "pcm0", it's better.

> Hmm... Could this be an ESS688
> based card (rev 11)
> 
> NOTE! SB Pro support required with your soundcard!
> snd0: <SoundBlaster Pro 3.1>   "
> 
> My kernel config file has this stuff in it, which i think should be appropriate:
> "controller snd0  
> device sb0      at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1"
> 
> When I recently played a system sound, I got a small beep (not from the system
> speaker, but really from the speakers attached to the sound board) and a bunch
> of errors saying:
> "Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> [...I think you've gotten  _that_ by now!]"
> 
> The following error used to pop up when I start X, but this no longer
> happens(!): "maudio: cannot open audio device"
> (Like I said, I don't get this now...for some reason...)
> 
> I have tried, in /dev/ :
> "# ./MAKEDEV snd0"
> ...but when I then proceed to:
> "# ls -l | grep snd0" , 
> snd0 isn't there!
> How can this be? 

$ ls /dev/dsp*

> 
> When I recently played a system sound, I got a small beep and abunch of errors
> saying:
> "Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> [...and so on, and so on...]"
> 
> The _whole_ of 
> "$ startx >Xserver_output 2>&1"
> comes here:
> 
> "XFree86 Version 3.3.3.1 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
> Release Date: December 29 1998
> 	If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
> 	than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
> 	problems.  (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
> Operating System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386 [ELF] 
> Configured drivers:
>   S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0)
>       newmmio, mmio_928, s3_generic
> Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
> (using VT number 4)
> 
> XF86Config: /etc/XF86Config
> (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
> (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
> (**) XKB: model: "pc101"
> (**) XKB: layout: "se"
> (**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200
> (**) Mouse: buttons: 3
> (**) S3: Graphics device ID: "Primary Card"
> (**) S3: Monitor ID: "Primary Monitor"
> Warning: The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local" does not exist.
>          Entry deleted from font path.
> (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> (--) S3: PCI: Trio32/64 rev 54, Linear FB @ 0xe0000000
> (--) S3: chipset:   Trio64V+ rev. 54
> (--) S3: chipset driver: newmmio
> (--) S3: card type: PCI
> (**) S3: videoram:  1024k
> (--) S3: Ramdac type: s3_trio64
> (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 135 MHz
> (--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 52.500 MHz)
> (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 95.000 MHz
> (**) S3: Mode "800x600": mode clock =  50.000
> (**) S3: Using 16 bpp.  Color weight: 565
> (--) S3: Virtual resolution set to 800x600
> (--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xE0000000
> (--) S3: Using a banksize of 1024k, line width of 800
> (--) S3: Using a single 54x54 area at (746,601) for expanding pixmaps
> (--) S3: Using 16 planes of 746x54 at (0,601) aligned 8 as font cache
> KCharset: Wrong charset!
> 
> maudio OSS Error: 5
> maudio OSS Error: 5
> maudio OSS Error: 5
> KCharset: Wrong charset!"
> 
> 
> I am really grateful for all the help I can get, and I am going start with
> recompiling with another set of IRQ/DRQ's
> /Fredrik ("What am I - a musician or a computer software engineer?") Carlen
> 
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