From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 15:54:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA01987 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 May 1995 15:54:06 -0700 Received: from devo.delphi.com (stephen@devo.delphi.com [192.80.63.236]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA01977 for ; Thu, 4 May 1995 15:54:02 -0700 Received: (stephen@localhost) by devo.delphi.com (UCB+Delphi/0.2) id SAA11352; Thu, 4 May 1995 18:53:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 18:53:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Mattin Subject: Re: Audio driver - please enlighten me .... To: Pat_Barron@transarc.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <4jeG2oqSMV1b0KStYU@transarc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As I mentioned in my long tale of woe regarding VAT, all the versions I have tried with the SB16 show the same behavior described below. Stephen A. Mattin Delphi Internet Services Corporation 1030 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 stephen@delphi.com On Thu, 4 May 1995 Pat_Barron@transarc.com wrote: > I'm trying to get a regular old SoundBlaster (8-bit) card to be > /dev/audio in my 486DX/33 machine. It's at the standard place - > ioaddr 220, irq 7, drq 1. I have "controller snd0" and "device sb0" > configured. My machine's parallel port also uses irq 7, but I have it > disabled in the configuration. > > When I try to push an 8-bit u-law file out /dev/audio, I hear the > first little bit (like .25 to .5 second) of the sound file, and then > it hangs. Hitting ^C stops it. Trying it again results in another > hang, at exactly the same place in the sound file. > > I'm running -current, if that matters. > > What do I have to do to make this work? Any hints from the sound card > experts? > > --Pat. >