On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Ben Jameson wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, John Wright wrote:
> 
> [snip stuff about pausing at vidcaudio]
> 
> > One thing that might be considered is that I used fastboot from a cold
> > computer.
> > 
> > Anybody know anything about this?
> 
> 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)
 
> 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?

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

Chris G