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From: digdon@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.CA (Mike Digdon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Soundblaster Pro setup
Date: 14 Jun 1995 21:07:13 -0300
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One Vision (reeber@pilot.njin.net) wrote:

: 	I'm having some peculiar problems with my Soundblaster Pro card and
: FreeBSD 2.0.5.  I enabled it in the kernel, as well as opl support.  It gets
: detected at bootup, but when I cat a file to /dev/audio, it plays the first
: few seconds and then hangs.  The same thing happens with .mod files and 
: tracker.  

: 	At first, I couldn't even get it to do anything.  I re-made the 
: devices with MAKEDEV, however, and got to where I am now.  Any suggestions?

I am having the exact same problem.  The sound gets played for a few seconds
and then hangs, to the point where I have to reboot the machine to get rid
of the process.