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Re: [TCLUG:10481] Sound Blaster 64 trouble.



Are you getting anything on there?  Or is it just that nothing useful shows
up?

----- Original Message -----
From: Justin Coyne <jcoyne@breakout.micro.umn.edu>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:10481] Sound Blaster 64 trouble.


> I added *.* /dev/tty10 to syslogd.conf but still nothing showing up giving
> me any clue about how to procede.
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Jon Schewe wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Justin Coyne wrote:
> > >
> > > > I finally got my SB 64 to start functioning under linux. I'm now
able to
> > > > play sounds, but only for a short while. About 2 minutes after I
start
> > > > playing an mp3 the whole system locks. I can't type anything, switch
to
> > > > another term, telnet in, or ctrl-alt-del. It is completely locked. I
> > even
> > > > allocated the appropriate IRQ's and DMA's to the ISA Legacy bus in
the
> > > > BIOS but that seemed to have no effect at all. I have no idea where
to
> > > > begin troubleshooting this problem.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Justin Coyne <jcoyne@software.umn.edu>
> > > >
> > >
> > > Check out /var/log/messages after you coldboot and see if there are
any
> > > error messages that the sound driver put out before the system locked.
> > >
> > If it's locking before that information gets written to disk you'll miss
it
> > though.  Something I do when debugging is to setup syslog to spew all
> > messages to a tty and then switch to that to see them.  So add *.*
> > /dev/tty10 to /etc/syslog.conf and restart syslogd, kill -HUP will work
too.
> > Then start playing you're mp3, then switch to VC 10 with ctrl-alt-f10
and
> > watch the messages and see what appears.
> >
> >
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