snd_envy24 driver -- sound vanishes after first use

[Ariff Abdullah]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:57:02 -0800
Oliver Iberien <odilist at sonic.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 February 2007 09:05, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:44:15 -0800
> > Oliver Iberien <odilist at sonic.net> wrote:
> > [...]
> 
> I'm finding that sound seems to vanish after having been used by one
> 
> application once. For instance, if I try to play a RealAudio stream,
> it  works, but if I try to change streams, it fails and will not
> produce sound  again for this or another application. This is
> FreeBSD 6.0. using  KDE 3.5.5, and drivers downloaded from ~ariff
> today. 
> 
> This error appears occasionally:
> 
> Mar  3 23:17:03 bsd kernel: pcm0:play:1:dsp0.p1: play interrupt
> timeout,  channel dead
> 

Try these (get _both_):

http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/test/sound.ko
http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/test/snd_envy24.ko



> The driver loads with this:
> 
> Mar  3 23:29:59 bsd kernel: pcm0: <Envy24 audio (M Audio Audiophile
> 2496)>  port 0x8000-0x801f,0x8400-0x840f,0x8800-0x880f,0x8c00-0x8c3f
> irq 16 at device  6.0 on pci5
> Mar  3 23:29:59 bsd kernel: pcm0: system configuration
> Mar  3 23:29:59 bsd kernel: SubVendorID: 0x1412, SubDeviceID: 0xd634
> Mar  3 23:29:59 bsd kernel: XIN2 Clock Source:
> 22.5792MHz(44.1kHz*512) Mar  3 23:29:59 bsd kernel: MPU-401 UART(s)
> #: 1
> Mar  3 23:29:59 bsd kernel: AC'97 codec: not exist
> Mar  3 23:29:59 bsd kernel: ADC #: 1
> Mar  3 23:29:59 bsd kernel: DAC #: 1
> Mar  3 23:29:59 bsd kernel: Multi-track converter type: I2S(96KHz
> support,  24bit resolution, ID#0x2)
> 
> And this always appears, repeated several times:
> 
> mixer: WRITE_MIXER: Device not configured
> 
> Mixer can only change a few settings:
> 
> bsd# mixer line +100
> Setting the mixer line from 0:0 to 100:100.
> bsd# mixer speaker +100
> Setting the mixer speaker from 0:0 to 100:100.
> mixer: WRITE_MIXER: Device not configured
> bsd# mixer bass +50
> Setting the mixer bass from 0:0 to 50:50.
> mixer: WRITE_MIXER: Device not configured
> 
> Some related discussion here: 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-February/069273.html
> .)
> 
> Thanks for any advice you can provide.
> 
> Oliver
> 


--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced
    and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........
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