Sorry about the delay in replying to this, but I've had a very busy few
weeks.

On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Chris Gilbert wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Ben Jameson wrote:

[...snip...]

> > I've had problems with the machine hanging in the boot when it gets to
> > vidcaudio. Sometimes it pauses for a while and then continues, sometimes
> > it hangs and goes no further. If I compile a kernel without vidcaudio the
> > machine will hang at beep0 instead.
> 
> beep relies on vidcaudio, or lmcaudio (depending on machine)

Don't both beep and vidcaudio rely on the vidc driver? (but not on each
other) I thought that vidcaudio was the (as yet unfinished) interface
between the generic NetBSD audio driver and the 16 bit VIDC stuff...

> > I only seem to get this when booting NetBSD after the machine has been on
> > for a while (not always, but most of the time). Cold booting seems to work
> > correctly all of the time.
> > 
> > This is with an ARM-610 machine with 16 bit sound.
> 
> Is the 16 bit acorns or another company?

It's an Acorn card on a first issue RiscPC motherboard.

> Which kernel are you using?  does the latest auto-build kernel work?

It was occuring with any custom kernels that I've built since Febuary and 
the latest autobuild. However I've now fitted a StrongARM and the problem
has stopped. I suspect that due to the fact that nobody else has mentioned
seeing the problem it is due to an oddity in my machine's hardware. I
thoughtthat this was the case in the first place but then began to wonder
when I saw John's email.

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