From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 23:28:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA25683 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 23:28:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA25634 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 23:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from aeffle.Stanford.EDU (sequence.Stanford.EDU) by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA01862 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 29 Jan 1997 23:27:29 -0800 Received: (from hlew@localhost) by aeffle.Stanford.EDU (8.8.4/8.6.6) id XAA31328; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 23:25:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 23:25:27 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew To: Doug White Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wow... got sound.. but! In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Doug White wrote: > > > > It's been a while since I last played around with the sound configuration > > on FreeBSD without any luck getting it to work for Real Audio. I have > > almost decided to give up, but with some luck today, I hear music on it > > after changing irqs, but now I have run into another problem -- the system > > reboots after about 3 seconds or so of sound. If I don't play any sound > > it does not reboot. > > > > Sound Card: > > Televideo Multimedia EX16 3D PNP > > * Claims to support Sound Blaster Pro and Windows Sound System > > > > I have tried the Sound Blaster driver, but I do not hear anything. It > > pretends to play the music (Real Audio's scroll bar moves and s3mod > > pretends to play), but I hear nothing. > > Did you check that.... > > 1. the speakers were plugged in and powered properly? > 2. The volume was turned up? (use mixer) > 3. The devices exist? (try /dev/MAKEDEV snd0) > Yes, 1 & 3 are correct. The mixer is also there in /dev, but I am not sure how to turn up the volume. I tried using cam, but for the sound blaster mode, it keeps saying: SOUND_MIXER_READ_DEVMASK : Error reading /dev/mixer typing mixer get me: SOUND_MIXER_READ_DEVMASK: Device not configured So I suspect you maybe right that it could be the mixer.... but I am not sure how to fix this... Is it as simple as adding a line to the configuration? > > With the MSS driver, both play, > > but both will cause the system to panic and reboot which causes me to > > suspect the sound driver. The sound that comes through is very clear, but > > unfortunately the system reboots. > > Can't say for the mss driver. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >