Subject: Re: Toshiba Tecra 8000 & sound
To: None <lorenz@inetmail.de>
From: Arne Henrik Juul <arnej>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/05/1999 11:33:20
> I use NetBSD-1.4 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 Notebook and can't get sound
> to work properly. First, this is what dmesg says:
> 
>  sb0 at isa0 port 0x220-0x237 irq 5 drq 1: dsp v3.01
>  midi0 at sb0: <SB MIDI UART>
>  audio0 at sb0: half duplex
>  opl0 at sb0: model OPL3
>  midi1 at opl0: <SB Yamaha OPL3>
>  wss0 at isa0 port 0x530-0x537 irq 10 drq 0 drq2 1: CS4231 or AD1845
>  audio1 at wss0: full duplex
> 
> But... neither `mpg123 foo.mp3' nor `mpg123 -a /dev/audio1 foo.mp3' 
> (after doing a `MAKEDEV audio1' in /dev)  plays my mp3 files; at least
> I can't hear anything....

I have tried NetBSD 1.4 on one of these, but I never got the PCMCIA
network card to work.  If you've got any hints on that I would be
happy.  (Yes, it's a "supported" card, and I tried playing around
with PCIC_ISA_foo options which helped somewhat...)   The machine
is currently running linux.

I was able to play audio files, at least .au files with
"cat file > /dev/audio0", when I configured the sound like this:

wss0 at isa? port 0x530 irq 5 drq 1 drq2 0
audio* at wss?

No soundblaster, and the IRQ and DRQ settings was found by peeking
in the bios settings.  I was able to get into the bios only by
hammering on the ESC key when turning power on, but once there
I found all the sound chip settings on "system setup page 2".

  -  Arne H. J.