Re: 16 bit DMA problems w/ Jazz sound driver in 1.3.62?

John_Wier (jbw@telerama.lm.com)
Sat, 17 Feb 1996 12:27:45 -0500 (EST)


get procps-0.99 and the floating point will be fixed

On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, Andy Meyer wrote:

> Okay, I tried the 1.3.64 Kernel, and my soundcard works great! (a
> Logitech Soundman Wave) both the low and high dma are recognized, the
> midi sounds awesome, and thihngs copied to /dev/audio sound good.
> And, finally both the left and the right channels work properly on my
> systems.
> Only one problem....
> /dev/dsp doesn't work at all...
> I either get an "Error opening audio-device" or a "Invalid audio buffer
> size" I set the buffer size as recommended to 65536, and I have tried
> 128k, 32k, 8k, and 4k buffers using the dma_buffsize=???? when
> installing the module.
> Anyone have any ideas on this one?
>
> I also have problems with ps -v giving a floating exception, no idea on
> this one.
>
> Andy Meyer
> ameyer@uiuc.edu
>
> # cat /dev/sndstat
> Sound Driver:3.5-beta2-960210 (Thu Feb 15 22:17:24 CST 1996 root,
> Linux crh0497 1.2.13 #1 Tue Feb 13 19:29:10 CST 1996 i486)
> Config options: 1a90002
>
> Installed drivers:
> Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
> Type 2: SoundBlaster
> Type 6: SoundBlaster 16bit
> Type 7: SB MPU
>
> Card
> config: SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1
> (SoundBlaster 16bit at 0x220 irq 5 drq 5)
> SB MPU at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0
> OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 irq 0 drq 0
>
> Audio devices:
> 0: MV Jazz16 3.1
>
> Synth devices:
> 0: Yamaha OPL-3
>
> Midi devices:
> 0: SoundBlaster MPU
>
> Timers:
> 0: System clock
>
> Mixers:
> 0: SoundBlaster
> #
>
> and
>
> # cat /proc/dma
> 1: SoundBlaster
> 4: cascade
> 5: Jazz16 16 bit
> #
> and
>
> # cat /proc/interrupts
> 0: 4135083 timer
> 1: 39152 keyboard
> 2: 0 + cascade
> 4: 331247 + serial
> 5: 100824 SoundBlaster
> 10: 8 + 53c7,8xx
> 13: 1 math error
> 14: 492296 + ide0
> 15: 371696 NE2000
> #
>
>
>

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