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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.mtu.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!nntp0.brunel.ac.uk!strath-cs!not-for-mail From: nbc@muir-10.cs.strath.ac.uk (Neil Clark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Soundblaster PRO Date: 1 Nov 1995 17:19:26 -0000 Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <478a6u$oo5@muir-10.cs.strath.ac.uk> References: <25Oct95.230349@LoVerso.Southborough.MA.US> NNTP-Posting-Host: muir-10.cs.strath.ac.uk John Robert LoVerso <John@LoVerso.Southborough.MA.US> wrote: >I'm running 2.1.0-951005-SNAP and having a problem getting a Soundblaster PRO >working. This could be nothing more than my own misunderstanding, but >the only things I'm able to get to work are very short .au files that I >cat to /dev/audio. Everything else, from QT files with imbedded audio tracks >to random .WAV files (including those from http://www.webb.com/grinch - >How the Grinch Stole Christmas) only play for a fraction of a second and >then cut out. As an educated guess, I'd suggest that you have the IRQ settings wrong for your card. I had the same problem with my "integrated" Soundblaster 16, and fixed it by configuring the kernel to use IRQ 5 instead of the default, IRQ 7. The sound is still pretty rough though, suffering from a great deal of background noise, even when a sample isn't playing. Is this normal? I personally am having difficulties getting the MIDI and FM stuff working, partly due to the nature of my machine with its "integrated" sound stuff and partly due to my ignorance of PC hardware. I also cannot get my ATAPI CD-ROM working :-(. The machine is a Viglen Genie PCI Professional P5/75 - has anyone had any luck with this config.? Neil