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Date:      Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:50:21 -0600 (CST)
From:      Stingray <chrisd@bsdbox.dynip.com>
To:        "M. Poulin" <mpoulin@honk.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Still no luck with cd music through sound card...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990125213527.26101A-100000@bsdbox.dynip.com>
In-Reply-To: <99012622443400.05595@spanky>

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I don't think you  need to use oss since your kernel recognizes the
soundcard. try disabling oss and see if it works.



On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, M. Poulin wrote:

> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:26:26 -0500
> From: "M. Poulin" <mpoulin@honk.org>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Still no luck with cd music through sound card...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been trying for a couple of weeks without any success to get audio CDs
> to play through my sound card.  I have checked everything I can possibly think
> of, I know for a fact that the sound card is functioning properly, but still no
> luck.  I would really like to not have to boot down to Win98 every time I want
> to listen to a CD.
> 
> Here's what I know for sure:
> 
> 1.  Yes, there is a cable connecting the CD-Rom drive to the sound card.  I
> installed it myself, and I am able to play audio CD's in Win98.
> 
> 2.  I have configured my environment variable correctly for xcd.  I am able to
> play audio CD's and listen to them through the built-in headphone jack, but I
> can't get the sound to come out of my sound card.
> 
> 3.  I have the mixer device configured properly.  Here's the output:
> 
> Mixer vol	is currently set to	90:90
> Mixer bass	is currently set to	75:75
> Mixer treble	is currently set to	75:75
> Mixer synth	is currently set to	75:75
> Mixer pcm	is currently set to	74:74
> Mixer speaker	is currently set to	75:75
> Mixer line	is currently set to	75:75
> Mixer mic	is currently set to	16:16
> Mixer cd	is currently set to	75:75
> Mixer igain	is currently set to	75:75
> Mixer ogain	is currently set to	75:75	
> 
> 4.  I am pretty certain that I have compiled my soundcard (sounblaster 16
> compatible) into the kernel correctly.  It plays .wav and .au files, and I have
> no problem getting sound effects out of Doom.
> 
> 5.  Oddly, though, I can't get music out of Doom (dunno if this is related to
> my audio CD problem) and I also can't play MP3's.  This is the error I get when
> trying to play MP3's using x11amp:
> 
> Incompatible OSS Driversoss sysinfo=537358976: 0
> Warning: Unable to set fragment size!!
> Unable to get fragment size
> 
> 6.  My sound card is a "sound blaster compatible" card that has the following
> settings:
> 
> IO: 0220-022F
> IRQ: 05
> DMA: 01
> DMA: 05
> 
> Here is what I have included in my kernel:
> 
> controller snd0
> device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 vector sbintr
> device sbxvi0 at isa? drq5
> device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330
> 
> If anyone can help with this, it would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> M.
> 
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