Odd code in sound/pcm/channel.c, help with PR?

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:44:08 -0700
George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com> wrote:

> Conrad J. Sabatier writes:
>  > On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:28:29 -0700
>  > George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com> wrote:
>  > 
>  > > 
>  > > I'm trying to get some traction and get sound to work on my ASUS
>  > > A8V-MX.  I keep ending up with
>  > > 
>  > >   pcm0:play:0::dsp0.0: play interrupt timeout, channel dead
>  > > 
>  > > on my console.
>  > 
>  > I used to see this on my amd64 box with earlier versions of
>  > FreeBSD. Back then, disabling ACPI would cure the problem.  You
>  > may want to give that a try.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> I booted w/out acpi, by choosing 2 at the loader prompt, and I still
> don't get any sound when I cat /etc/termcap > /dev/dsp0.0 and it that
> still generates the timeout error message.

Have you tried "cat foo > /dev/audio"?

Try doing "sysctl hw.snd.verbose=2; cat /dev/sndstat" and see what it
shows.

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Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"