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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!ncar!lanl!nash!jxg From: jxg@purcell.lanl.gov (John M. Galbraith,(GRA)) Subject: Sound Driver initialization problems Message-ID: <1994Mar1.002618.13091@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Reply-To: jxg@purcell.lanl.gov Organization: purcell LANL Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 00:26:18 GMT Lines: 17 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