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From: jxg@purcell.lanl.gov (John M. Galbraith,(GRA))
Subject: Sound Driver initialization problems
Message-ID: <1994Mar1.002618.13091@newshost.lanl.gov>
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Organization: purcell LANL
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 00:26:18 GMT
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I snagged the new version of the VoxWare sound driver made available by
Amancio, along with the mod player, mixer, and adagio.  I have only a Gravis
Ultrasound card.  It works well - but only if I boot DOS first (and I was about to delete that partition...) and run a DOS sound application such that comes from 
Gravis or somewhere.  Then I reboot the machine (warm boot - the sound card is
not effected, apparently) and boot FreeBSD.  Then, all the sound apps work.
Otherwise, all the sounds are distorted beyond recognition with those same
applications.  I just discovered the workaround by accident - I went to DOS to
get the .mods from the gravis distribution disks, and that is how I happened to
run a DOS program first.

Is this a bug in the driver?  It is apparently an initialization problem using the
GUS card with FreeBSD 1.02.  If one of the applications work, then all of them
do.

john