Hi,

I just switched from a old ISA SB16 sound card to an Ensonic AudioPCI 97 -
One of the reason was that I had to jack up the volume on my speakers all
the way to hear anything, which made the background noise unbearable,
even after using xmix (which helped, but not enough).

So I install the new card, executed ./MAKEDEV audio0 , and the problem is
worse (you can just BARELY hear anything at full blast)

Am I missing something here? (or any advice from other Ensonic users?)

Thanks - Peter

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NetBSD 1.5.1_BETA (AKERS) #0: Tue May  1 17:43:26 PDT 2001
    plosher@nominum.com:/system/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/AKERS
cpu0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) (686-class), 551.27 MHz
total memory = 127 MB
avail memory = 113 MB
using 1659 buffers containing 6636 KB of memory
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xf0520
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: Intel 82443BX Host Bridge/Controller (rev. 0x03)
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: Intel 82443BX AGP Interface (rev. 0x03)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: Matrox MGA G400 AGP (rev. 0x04)
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0
pcib0: Intel 82371AB PCI-to-ISA Bridge (PIIX4) (rev. 0x02)
pciide0 at pci0 dev 4 function 1: Intel 82371AB IDE controller (PIIX4)
(rev. 0x01)
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST38421A>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 8056 MB, 16368 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 16498944
sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4
wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: <ST36421A>
wd1: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd1: 6150 MB, 13330 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 12596850
sectors
wd1: 32-bit data port
wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data
transfers)
wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data
transfers)
pciide0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode
pciide0: disabling secondary channel (no drives)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 4 function 2: Intel 82371AB USB Host Controller (PIIX4)
(rev. 0x01)
uhci0: interrupting at irq 5
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
Intel 82371AB Power Management Controller (PIIX4) (miscellaneous bridge,
revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 4 function 3 not configured
fxp0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: Intel i82557 Ethernet, rev 5
fxp0: interrupting at irq 10
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:e0:18:98:e7:14, 10/100 Mb/s
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 0
inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
eap0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 CT5880C (rev. 0x02)
eap0: interrupting at irq 11
eap0: TRA3 codec; no 3D stereo
audio0 at eap0: full duplex, mmap, independent
midi0 at eap0: AudioPCI MIDI UART
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi1 at pcppi0: PC speaker
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
biomask e365 netmask e765 ttymask f7e7
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs
wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
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Peter Losher   				      <Peter.Losher@nominum.com>
Systems Admin. - Nominum, Inc.              PGP key available on request