bizarre malfunction of sound

Oliver Neukum (neukum@fachschaft.org.chemie.uni-muenchen.de)
Sun, 4 Oct 1998 23:10:52 +0200 (MEST)


Dear Developers,

i am experiencing a rather unusual malfunction of my soundcard.
It may be a result of a misconfiguration, but there are strange things to
report. The problem is there in 2.1.122 and 2.1.123 at least.
The symptoms are as follows: I can play sound, until i change the mixer
settings. After that any attempt to play sound generates a lot of:

kernel: Sound Blaster: DSP command(xx) timeout.

where xx is a hex number between a1 and c0
followed by:
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error ?

Hardware:
Intel UP-P120
Soundcard: ESS1688

Configuration:
I let the BIOS configure the card and compile the driver into the kernel.

/proc/sound
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver compiled into kernel
Kernel: Linux irulan 2.1.123 #9 Sun Oct 4 17:14:02 MEST 1998 i586
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 26: MPU-401 (UART)
Type 2: Sound Blaster
Type 29: Sound Blaster PnP
Type 7: SB MPU-401
Type 36: SoftOSS Virtual Wave Table

Card config:
SoftOSS Virtual Wave Table
Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,5
SB MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0

Audio devices:
0: ESS ES1688 AudioDrive (rev 11) (3.1)

Synth devices:
0: SoftOSS
1: Yamaha OPL3

Midi devices:
0: ESS ES1688

Timers:
0: System clock
1: SoftOSS

Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster

/proc/interrupts:
CPU0
0: 240774 XT-PIC timer
1: 8335 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 296 XT-PIC soundblaster
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
9: 0 XT-PIC MPU-401 UART
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 19670 XT-PIC ide0
15: 2 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0

So the soundcard is "undead", working and not working.

Regards,
Oliver Neukum

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