Re: Problem with sound driver in 2.0.0

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@zip.com.au)
Sun, 23 Jun 1996 22:42:22 +1000


Steve VanDevender wrote:
> On the other hand, the sound driver works (or fails to work) just as it
> did before in DOOM, and after some random amount of time (usually 5-15
> minutes of play) the sound stops and I get the "DMA (output) timed out -
> IRQ/DRQ conflict?" messsage although no such conflict exists on my
> system. I should also note that this happened when I had all IDE disks,
> and so far I haven't seen any noticeable difference in this behavior as
> a result of using SCSI instead of IDE.

I see the same thing on my system with both doom and the Quake test. I have a
PCI P133 with NCR scsi controller. My system doesn't have any conflicts.
This is my /dev/sndstat:

Installed drivers:
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 2: SoundBlaster
Type 6: SoundBlaster 16bit
Type 7: SB MPU

Card config:
SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1,5
(SB MPU at 0x0 irq 1 drq 0)
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 irq 0 drq 0

Audio devices:
0: ESS ES1688 AudioDrive (rev 5)

Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3

Midi devices:

Timers:
0: System clock

Mixers:
0: SoundBlaster