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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!worldnet.att.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!199.232.240.5!news.ziplink.net!zip1!steve From: steve@zip1.zipnet.net (Steve Bernacki) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: SoundBlaster 16 won't play Date: 15 Dec 1996 07:36:51 GMT Organization: zipnet.net Lines: 47 Message-ID: <5909qj$sm2@news.ziplink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: zip1.ziplink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32635 Hey y'all, I just installed a cheapo soundblaster 16 into my 2.1.5 BSD box. I created the required drivers (MAKEDEV snd0 and MAKEDEV sb). I recompiled the kernel, and it sees the card (apparently) at startup: sb0 at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 on isa sb0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.12> Looks good, right? Well catting a file to /dev/audio produces nothing; the speakers are quiet and the cat jsut hands. /dev/sndstat returns the following: VoxWare Sound Driver:3.0-beta-950506 (Sun Feb 5 14:38:12 EST 1995 freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com) Config options: ffffffff Installed drivers: Type 2: SoundBlaster Card config: SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 Audio devices: 0: SoundBlaster 16 4.12 Synth devices: Midi devices: Timers: 0: System Timer Mixers: 0: SoundBlaster Any clues as to what the problem might be? Should I have installed the sbxvi driver instead? Shouldn't just sb work too, though? Thanks! -S -- Steve Bernacki, Jr. | Systems/Networks Administrator steve@ziplink.net | Ziplink, LLC