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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!bkogawa From: bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan Ogawa) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 32 PnP in FreeBSD Date: 7 Jun 1997 04:06:00 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Lines: 54 Message-ID: <5nbfao$44a@nntp02.primenet.com> References: <5mnhil$l7b@haus.efn.org> <5n20qc$jbs@news.gvsu.edu> X-Posted-By: bkogawa@206.165.5.107 (bkogawa) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42562 behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) writes: >Chris Brunner (cjb@efn.org) wrote: >: I have am using a Sound Blaster 32 PnP in FreeBSD ver. 2.2.1and it doesn't >: play midis. I can play mods and stuff (s3mod), but midis are noiseless. >: The program (playmidi) will start, and even display the graphic 'notes' for the song, >: but no sound comes out. >: I believe there is a problem with the PnP (yuk!) initialation. The >: non-PnP OS initialation program is a DOS binary, so I have no way to >: initialize the card in FreeBSD. >: Has anyone ever dealt with this kind of thing before? I'd appreciate any >: information anyone can give me. >First of all, if you can hear mods but not midis, I doubt it's a PnP >issue. PRobably some other odd config issue. (I use a GUS myself, so I >can't help you too much with the SB.) However, if the card follows >standard PnP stuff, you can use the PnP kernel patch from the xperimnt-al >stuff in most current FreeBSD dists. This does sound like a PnP issue. I have an AWE32 Soundblaster PnP, which works fine with 8/16bit SB as well as OPL emulation, but not the AWE32-specific wavetable stuff. I'm solving this by using OOS from 4Front Technologies, at http://www.4front-tech.com/ which is $30 for AWE32 + OSS . If you're willing to just accept OPL emulation, configure that in your kernel. I don't remember the right address for it, but you need that in addition to your soundblaster stuff. If you're adventurous, you can try installing the PnP stuff for freebsd; it's pre-alpha, and I couldn't get it to work with my card. Try: http://www.freebsd.org/~smpatel/ for the PnP, and http://bahamut.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~iwai/awedrv/ for the drivers. Another option is the software emulator for MIDIs which uses GUS sounds (patches?) to simulate MIDI and produce raw sound files which you can pipe to your /dev/audio or /dev/dsp . Look in the ports section under audio. Hope this helps. -- bryan k. ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> <bkogawa@netvoyage.net>