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From: Steve Bernacki <steve@ziplink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: soundcard help?
Date: 16 Dec 1996 22:24:11 GMT
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Joel--
I recently ran into this problem. The solution doesn't quite make sense,
but does make the sound card work great. Reboot your machine and go into
config mode (enter "-c" at the Boot: prompt). Change your SB's IRQ from 7
to 5. Save changes and the machine will proceed to reboot. If your
problem was as strange as mine (a little sound came out of the card, but
not much) then this will cure it. I've been happily wasting bandwidth
with realaudio all day. :)
Good luck!
-S
Joel Bradbury <joel@engr.washington.edu> wrote:
: I'm trying to get a soundcard to work with a FreeBSD 2.1.6 system. My
: goal is to use vat for MBone reception, but at the moment I'm just trying
: to get any noise out of the card at all. I was originally trying a
: 'SoundBlaster compatible' card, but have swapped in an older basic
: SoundBlaster, with no improvement. The jumpers are set to the default
: values (port 0x220, irq 7). (The card works OK under DOS.)
: My kernel config includes:
:
: controller snd0
: device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 conflicts drq 1 vector sbintr
: When it boots, I get:
: sb0: at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 on isa
: sb0: <SoundBlaster 2.1>
: But I can't seem to get any sound. I've seen comments about cating a
: sound file to /dev/audio (should this be an .au file? I've tried files of
: several formats), but all I get is a brief crackle on the earphones.
: I haven't been able to find much relevant documentation except for
: 'sound.doc' in /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/sound. Any suggestions would be much
: appreciated.
: Joel joel@engr.washington.edu
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