Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:09:49 -0600 (CST) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: faulkner@devnull.mpd.tandem.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GUS woes Message-ID: <9503092009.AA17107@olympus> In-Reply-To: <9503092001.AA12525@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Mar 9, 95 03:01:54 pm
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> > <<On Thu, 9 Mar 1995 10:45:41 -0600 (CST), faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) said: > > I have a GUS MAX that I've been trying to get to work with no success > for the past few generations of the sound driver. This may be because > my machine can't run DOS (and therefore Gravis' DOS initialization > program). If it is to be of use to me, I need the card to work > without requiring DOS. Can anyone with more experience in dealing > with these things comment? I boot dos from a diskette and initialize the card. > > BTW, the failure mode that I see is that, in playing an audio file, > the first second or three comes out just fine (but LOUD), and then > something gets stuck in an infinite loop playing the same sound over > and over again. The play program gets stuck in an uninterruptible > wait in the audio driver (ick!). Perhaps an IRQ register isn't > getting initialized right? I got stuck on boot once, hanging on the GUS. That is when I pulled out the dos init prog. They say Dos init isn't required anymore but I don't quite believe it, yet. > > -GAWollman > > -- -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________
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