SB16 w/ kernel 2.0.21 problem?

Greg Patterson (root@gomer.mlink.net)
Mon, 30 Sep 1996 11:35:05 -0400 (EDT)


With 2.0.21 and probably a few earlier kernels, sound has been working
sporadically with my cheapy SB16. It has worked fine in the past and no
recent hardware changes have occurred.

gomer:~/anims# cat /dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Wed Sep 18 10:40:58 EDT 1996 root,
Linux gomer 2.0.20 #1 Fri Sep 13 09:22:47 EDT 1996 i586)
Kernel: Linux gomer 2.0.21 #2 Fri Sep 20 11:53:23 EDT 1996 i586
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 2: Sound Blaster

Card config:
Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,5

Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.13)

Synth devices:

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
0: System clock

Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster

When I run an xanim .avi which is basically my test of knowning when sound
is working, I get the following error in my syslog:

Sound DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
last message repeated 3 times
last message repeated 6 times

While it is playing, I can hear the audio break thru for a very brief 1/2
second or so every once in a while. The last time I had this problem, a
reboot seemed to correct the problem. Though this time, my system was
recently rebooted so I find it strange that its showed up already. The
only other thing the SB16 is used for is playing audio CD's.

When running from Windows 95 or NT 4.0, sound is working great.

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