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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Sound Driver initialization problems Message-ID: <hastyCM0KKL.2qq@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1994Mar1.002618.13091@newshost.lanl.gov> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 01:38:43 GMT Lines: 42 In article <1994Mar1.002618.13091@newshost.lanl.gov> jxg@purcell.lanl.gov writes: >I snagged the new version of the VoxWare sound driver made available by >Amancio, along with the mod player, mixer, and adagio. I have only a Gravis >Ultrasound card. It works well - but only if I boot DOS first (and I was about to delete that partition...) and run a DOS sound application such that comes from >Gravis or somewhere. Then I reboot the machine (warm boot - the sound card is >not effected, apparently) and boot FreeBSD. Then, all the sound apps work. >Otherwise, all the sounds are distorted beyond recognition with those same >applications. I just discovered the workaround by accident - I went to DOS to >get the .mods from the gravis distribution disks, and that is how I happened to >run a DOS program first. > >Is this a bug in the driver? It is apparently an initialization problem using the >GUS card with FreeBSD 1.02. If one of the applications work, then all of them >do. > >john > > This is a known problem with the GUS and so far I have no clue as to what is causing it . I will spare all of you everything that I have done to try to solve this problem. I even have a freebsd kernel which does not have this problem with no change to the sound driver, what is different about it is that I included other kernel modules like NFS and a couple of other options. When I find the cause of this problem I will post the answer to this problem. More audio stuff in the near horizon: --- audio over the network for FreeBSD :-) Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X