Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:35:10 -0700 From: Chris Doherty <cdoherty@nttmcl.com> To: NemoX <i.think@nemox.looksharp.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound card setup? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990623103510.007be970@alicia.nttmcl.com> In-Reply-To: <376F09D0.3DB01368@nemox.looksharp.net> References: <3.0.6.32.19990622145821.007c5c90@alicia.nttmcl.com> <3.0.6.32.19990622155859.007adb00@alicia.nttmcl.com>
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for those of you just tuning in, I'm wrestling with a SoundBlaster card
under FreeBSD-3.1. I caught a quick glimpse of the boot screen today and
managed to make out the word "Vibra", which as far as I can tell means
nothing but trouble...
>> When logged in as root, run pnpinfo. What is the relevant information?
>
>only the part at the end is necessary,the beginning is just the possible
>configurations, the end specifies what the current configuration ( in pnp
bios
>). Paste the logical devices
in addition to the ISA SoundBlaster, there are PCI video and ethernet cards
in the machine as well.
----------------------------------------
Logical Device ID: CTL7001 0x01708c0e #1
Compatible Device ID: PNPb02f (2fb0d041)
Device Description: Game
I/O Range 0x200 .. 0x200, alignment 0x1, len 0x8
[16-bit addr]
End Tag
Successfully got 44 resources, 2 logical fdevs
-- card select # 0x0001
CSN CTL0070 (0x70008c0e), Serial Number 0xffffffff
Logical device #0
IO: 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000
IRQ 0 0
DMA 4 4
IO range check 0x00 activate 0x00
Logical device #1
IO: 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000
IRQ 0 0
DMA 4 4
IO range check 0x00 activate 0x00
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>> Chris Doherty wrote:
>> > hi--
>> >
>> > I'm running FreeBSD-3.1 with a SoundBlaster card (I have the model
number,
>> > but their website doesn't have model # <-> model name listings). I
believe
>> > it's PnP.
>> >
>> > somewhere, are there instructions for how to get audio support up and
>> > running. all I've been able to find are the sys/i386/conf/LINT,
>> > sys/i386/isa/snd/CARDS, and sys/i386/isa/sound/sound.doc files; those
seem
>> > to date back only to 2.1 or 2.0, and adding the drivers that they suggest
>> > doesn't seem to have worked (e.g. mpg123 complains "can't open /dev/dsp",
>> > even though it's there and the permissions are ok, or I just can't
find an
>> > output device that it can use).
>> >
>> > I've checked all the web pages I could find, with no luck. is there a
>> > resource I haven't been able to find, or is this part lacking in
>> > documentation? help? :-)
>> >
>> > a thousand thanks,
>> > Chris
>> > cdoherty@nttmcl.com
>> >
>> > PS--I was going to check archives of BSD newsgroups, but DejaNews doesn't
>> > seem to be useful any more...
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