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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!hillres155.cc.purdue.edu!willey From: willey@hillres142.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Willey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: SoundBlaster driver & SB16 Date: 13 Mar 1996 16:37:47 GMT Organization: Purdue University Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4i6tkr$n0i@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <3145AF2A.B546476@gsyc.inf.uc3m.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: hillres155.cc.purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jose Centeno (jcenteno@gsyc.inf.uc3m.es) wrote: : I have some NetBSD-1.1-i386 boxes (486 & Pentium), with "SB16-Value" : audio cards. : With GENERICADP kernel (includes sb driver), when I cat .au files : to /dev/audio, I get: : - with some machines, the proper music but in a very choppy : way, with a lot of static. : - with others: no sound at all. : (The same .au files play well with the same system and a GUS sound card) : Apparently there are no obvious IRQ/IOBASE/DMA conficts. : Is SB16 well-supported with sb driver in 1.1 version? : Is there something I missed? The SB16 does have this weirdness with the driver. I was lead to believe that it was a problem with the way it does DMA differently than the normal cards. Apparently, it is a solvable problem, as some have done so, but then lost the code changed they made. I wish I had the time, resources, and brains to fix it myself, but for now, I am just waiting for some knight in shining armor to do it. :) Although, I just had a stranger problem... I played some .au files from a web page, and got nothing but awful static. They were from the JDR microdevices 'mystery sounds': http://www.jdr.com/cgi-bin/wander?PATH:jdr/HTML/specials@HTML:fun.htm@BACK_P ATH:jdr/HTML/specials@BACK_HTML:spectop.htm@WID:32931@SETUP:JDR@AUX://usr/ns -home/docs/jdr/aux.tpl (<whew> What a URL!!! :) Mark