On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:38:04AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: | On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, dman wrote: | | > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:22:23PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: | > | Worse! I think I had the wrong sound card driver. I've rebuilt the kernel | > | sound, but now I get the dreaded "Can't Open /dev/dsp device". I haven't | > | figured out why yet. | > | > I recommend building all the (potentially relevant) sound drivers as a | > modules so that you can toy with them and try different settings | > without going through a recompile and a reboot. If some specific | > kernel features aren't absolutely essential then you could use a stock | > kernel to figure out what you need for sound since the stock kernels | > come with just about everything in module form. | | Good idea. I still have the original potato kernel (since upgraded to | woody/sid) so I tried it. After trying several other drivers I went full | circle and convinced myself that I do have the right driver (i810_audio), | which is the one that caused sawfish to hang when gnome window events had | sound turned on. | | It does work somewhat: | | I can run "play english.au" and it sounds perfect but gives these | messages: | | playing english.au | sox: Sound card appears to only support singled word samples. Overriding | format | sox: Sound card appears to only support 2 channels. Overriding format
This sounds to me like the .au file has multiple word samples and more than 2 channels, but since your sound card can't handle that then sox is adjusting for your sound card. | If I try to play the same file with xanim, the sound is all choppy and | fast (sounds like The Chipmunks). I know nothing about xanim. What happens if you play an mp3 with xmms? | Maybe the i810 support isn't very good? I don't know. Do you have all DMA channels, io addressed, irqs, etc, configured right? -D
