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Date:      Thu, 09 Mar 1995 15:10:22 -0800
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner), questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: GUS woes 
Message-ID:  <199503092310.PAA00766@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Mar 1995 15:01:54 EST." <9503092001.AA12525@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> 

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><<On Thu, 9 Mar 1995 10:45:41 -0600 (CST), faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulk
>ner) said:
>
>> I have a 512K gus with a different video card and scsi drives but otherwise
>> match your configuration.  I rebuilt current last night and could play
>> au files.  If I initialized the card with DOS, the volume was even loud.
>> I tried the ultrasnd whatnow3.mod and it sounded great but there where
>> "computer pops and cracks" interspersed with the music.  Volume control
>> worked.  
>
>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?
>
>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?
>
>-GAWollman

This mornings kernel was the first time in a long time I even attempted
to configure for my GUS 3.4.  The audio works fine, but dsp output is
garbled.  I was able to hang the machine after trying some .wav files
through nas.  It's definitely a step in the right direction.  I didn't
even have to init the card from DOS!

>
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Justin T. Gibbs
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