Re: sound driver broken in 1.3.96+ ?

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Tue, 28 May 1996 10:51:38 +0100 (BST)


> When I updated my kernel to pre2.0.7, I noticed that auplay (from nas-1.2p3)
> was broken. Funny enough, a simple 'cat sound.au > /dev/audio' does work
> however. So I started backtracking to see where the sound driver changed
> and found that the problem started with 1.3.96 when the DMA sound code was
> modified. Has anyone else seen this problem?
> kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

Yes. I dug around my machine and moved a few IRQ/DMA values to no effect, then
tried turning off some magic "ISA bus dma" features on the ASUS board I have
and it now works. Im not exactly sure which thing fixed it, but I think
it was the DMA options.

Alan