From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 22 11:59:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F2B156E8 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:58:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA34911; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:58:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:58:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Sam Stephenson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 problems In-Reply-To: <99062118550800.22560@thanatos.conio.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Sam Stephenson wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE, and it seems that my SoundBlaster 16 doesn't > work. It's not a Plug-and-Play card (it's one of the old ones), and works fine > in NT4. Here's what I have in my kernel config file: > > controller snd0 > device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 vector sbintr > device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 > device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330 > > I have no conflicts, and the device seems to be recognized at startup: > > sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa > snd0: > sbxvi0 at drq 5 on isa > snd0: > sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa > snd0: > > When I try to play various audio files using splay, I get this error: > > Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is trying to tell you something :-) > Other programs, like amp, simply sit without giving any error messages > at all. Catting a file to /dev/dsp produces static, just as it > should. I installed the port 'rsynth', a speech synthesizer, to see > if I could get some sound; strangely, only the first part of a string > is played: Try letting cat /bin/cat > /dev/audio run to completion, or find a long .au sound and play it. If it sticks or starts repeating itself, it's a DMA or interrupt conflict all right. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message