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Date:      Fri, 22 Aug 1997 00:26:39 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why don't the sound drivers work with VAT? 
Message-ID:  <199708220726.AAA02156@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Aug 1997 22:54:44 PDT." <199708220554.WAA25010@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> 

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>From The Desk Of Dave Hayes :
> Can anyone explain why the 2.2 sound drivers don't work with VAT out
> of the box? 
> 
> Yes, I upgraded to the drivers on Amancio's pages but they don't work
> either and he doesn't answer me. ;)
> 
> Oh, I have a GUS. Is that the problem?


First, is anyone else besides Paul Traina having any kind of
problems with the GUS ? Because if you do *NOW* is the 
time to report such problems and not a few months later.



Okay here is your old problem report dated march 12 is best if
you post such problems to the multimedia mailing list because
there are times which I get very busy and I just plain forget to
answer. 

guspnp6.tar.gz is and old version of the sound driver please upgrade
to guspnp16.tar.gz from my ftp site. You will have to modify
isa.c to eliminate the printf from isa.c in current that has
been taken care of however on FreeBSD 2.2 that problem is 
still there. Just look up isa.c:isa_dma start and the printf
stands out .

send us the output of dmesg and "cat /dev/sndstat".



dave@kachina.jetcafe.org said:
> Hi. Here is a "problem report" and request for solution if you are
> still maintining the GUS driver.

> hokkshideh# uname -a FreeBSD hokkshideh.jetcafe.org 2.2-970225-GAMMA
> FreeBSD 2.2-970225-GAMMA #0: ...

> guspnp6.tar.gz 

> Mar 12 02:49:26 hokkshideh /kernel: Checking for GUS Plug-n-Play ...
> Mar 12 02:49:26 hokkshideh /kernel: Board Vendor ID: GRV0001     Board
> Serial Number: 00000001 Mar 12 02:49:27 hokkshideh /kernel: gus0 at
> 0x220 irq 12 drq 1 flags 0x3 on isa Mar 12 02:49:27 hokkshideh /
> kernel: GUS PNP (CS4231)> at 0x32c dma 3,1 Mar 12 02:49:27 hokkshideh /
> kernel: Gravis PNP (1024k)> at 0x220 irq 12 dma 1,3

> Ok...this driver feels very flaky. Things I notice:

> 1) "midi_synth.h" needed to be in the sys/i386/isa/sound directory,
> and a prototype needed to be altered. I shouldn't have to do this (tho
> I did).

> 2) VAT (the binary you compiled, fetched from rah.star-gate.com) has a
> noticable startup delay. Why? Should I grab the vat sources and
> attempt my own compile?

If you are having problems with the sound driver then I don't
think is unreasonable to expect long delays at start up althought
I must confess I don't know your hardware configuration nor what
is the cpu load, memory, etc... perhaps if you can post
the output of dmesg it may help.


> 3) VAT causes console messages like:

> isa_dmastart: channel 1 busy isa_dmastart: channel 3 busy

Just nuke the printf from isa.c:isa_dmastart

> 4) I had to get jmix because the audio controls on VAT don't work. It
> spews forth messages like:

Just try the latest driver and the mixer controls do work over here.


> failed set input line volume  I release  failed to select mic input
> failed to set mic volume  failed to set mic volume  failed to select
> line input  failed set input line volume  failed set input line volume
>  I release 

> 5) Sometimes VAT locks up, no response. 

> Is there something basic I am overlooking? I'll be broadcasting on
> radio free vat tomorrow with the GUS/FreeBSD if you want to see it in
> action. ------


	Amancio








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