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From: jl@lpl.arizona.edu (Joshua Lackey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: [FreeBSDv1.0.2] Soundblaster reboots the machine?
Date: 9 Feb 1994 20:38:34 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, CCIT
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Greetings!

I have an old 8-bit soundblaster and I just grabbed FreeBSDv1.0.2.  I was 
rather pleased to find that FreeBSD had support for a soundblaster already
there in the kernel, so I added the correct lines in to my config file and
remade a new kernel.  I then went to athena.sdsu.edu to grab some .au files
and play them on my new multi-media machine.  When I did a:

axis% cat sad-but-true.au > /dev/audio

I got about 4 seconds of music played much too quick and then my whole machine
went down.  It crashes so quick I could not read the errors I got.

Is this a common problem?  Is the Soundblaster driver not really supported
yet?  It seems to me that I have seen many Soundblaster success stories; 
perhaps it is just 8-bit Soundblasters that have this problem?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Josh.

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jl@lpl.arizona.edu                                    jl@axis.lpl.arizona.edu