[techtalk] Soundcard/DMA Timeout

[Tricia Bowen]

This link has some good debugging suggestions:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Sound-HOWTO.html#ss4.2
I actually gave up on configuring sound and installed oss which works
pretty good.
-tricia

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Bek Oberin wrote:

|Trying to get my $*^%&$ PnP soundcard to work.  It's a CMI8330
|and I've been following the stuff in the documentation and it's
|ALMOST working.  I get sound but all choppy and soft.
|
|Error when I try to cat something to /dev/dsp:
|
|Dec  7 14:15:27 mycroft kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
|
|I'm 99% sure it's -not- an IRQ conflict, /proc/interrupts says
|[root at mycroft] /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound# cat /proc/interrupts
|           CPU0
|  0:   10543508          XT-PIC  timer
|  1:       1081          XT-PIC  keyboard
|  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
|  3:          8          XT-PIC  serial
|  7:          0          XT-PIC  MSS audio codec
|  9:     211016          XT-PIC  eth0
| 13:          0          XT-PIC  fpu
| 14:     634770          XT-PIC  ide0
| 15:          7          XT-PIC  ide1
|NMI:          0
|
|And the only IRQs mentioned in the /etc/isapnp.conf are 5, 7 and
|11.  They all look free.
|
|How would I go about debugging this?  I don't even know where to
|LOOK.
|
|
|bekj
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