Subject: Re: cannot get sound to work on any machine
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.futureone.com>
From: Zdenek Salvet <salvet@horn.ics.muni.cz>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/22/1998 22:11:54
> I have a sparc 1 and a i386 w/ Sound Blaster 16 (dsp 3.0something) and I cannot
> get sound to work on either of them..
> 
> 1) cat blah.au >/dev/audio doesnt work.
> 
> If I cat a soundfile longer than like 30 seconds.. it starts to repeat over and
> over and over..  it takes about 2 minutes for a ^c to abort it.  Sound files
> catted to the port afterwards, will play, then immediately revert to the
> remainder of the previous sound, until they both repeat.  ie  A= long file..
> B=short
> AAAAAAAAAA->AAAAAAAAAAA where -> is the repeat.
> BBBAAAAAAA->BBBAAAAAAAA etc etc..

I had the same problem with ESS1868 based soundcard (SB Pro emulation)
and 1.3 release. Using -current kernel it works fine.

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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