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From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with Creative Technology Sound Card - Help!
Date: 9 Apr 1997 14:20:17 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Dave Roethig
(daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu) had the courage to say:
: We have a Creative Technology Sound Card.
: It says that is is PnP-compatible adn follows
: the SoundBlaster 16 convention.
: The kernel recognizes it:
: Apr 8 13:34:11 rebec /kernel: sb0 at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 on isa
^^^^^
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!
: Apr 8 13:34:11 rebec /kernel: sb0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13>
: Apr 8 13:34:11 rebec /kernel: sbxvi0 at 0x0 drq 5 on isa
: Apr 8 13:34:11 rebec /kernel: sbxvi0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13>
: Apr 8 13:34:11 rebec /kernel: sbmidi0 not found at 0x330
: The problem:
: The sound is horrible!!
: It will not play anything for more than 1 second and then
: it stops playing and then kernel errors appear:
: Apr 8 13:34:39 rebec /kernel: Sound: DMA timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
: Apr 8 13:34:44 rebec last message repeated 2 times
Don't use IRQ 7! That's the printer port! I don't care if you took
out the 'lpt' lines in your kernel config file: unless you actually
turned off the printer port in your BIOS config (or set the appropriate
jumpers), the hardware is still there. Change the card to use a different
IRQ.
It beats me why Creative Labs chose 7 as their default IRQ when they
knew damn well it's already used by the printer port.
-Bill
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