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From: Colin Dalton <spooky@indigo.ie>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 won't play
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:29:24 +0000
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To: Steve Bernacki <steve@zip1.zipnet.net>
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Steve Bernacki wrote:

> Recompiled and rebooted.  Now, cat'ing a .au file to /dev/audio begins to
> play the sound (1.5 seconds or so) but then the card goes quiet and the
> cat just site there until I control-c out of it.

Are you sure your IRQ settings are correct? I had this problem until I
realised that I had sb0 looking at IRQ 5, when the card was set to IRQ
10.

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