Sound card problems (Yamaha xg)
Matt Johnson
everything in it works fine except the sound card. Checking the box it
came in was not much help..for what it's worth, the card is an
"IDEMA 3D Sound Card". It is a PCI card. When I briefly had OpenBSD on
this box, I remembered the dmesg saying something about audio so on a
hunch I dd'ed up myself an OpenBSD bootdisk and booted off it, escaped
to a shell and copied the dmesg over to a FreeBSD partiton. Here is the
part mentioning the card:
pchb1 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 "VIA Technologies VT82C586 (Apollo VP)
Power Management" rev 0x10
vendor "Yamaha", unknown product 0xd (class multimedia, subclass audio,
rev 0x03) at pci0 dev 17 function 0 not configured
This and consulting efnet #freebsd leads me to believe this card is
a Yamaha xg based PCI sound card.
I'm not sure if the pchb line above that has anything to do with the
sound card, but it is unorthodox OpenBSD dmesg policy to just say vendor
"foo", product bar rev 0x00, its usually foo0 at bar0 blah blah...
So anywho, I checked my kernel conf file, and there was no sound stuff
in my kernel, so I put the pcm driver in it, but dmesg just said
"pcm0: not found" I have yet to try pcm1, but pnpinfo lists no PnP
cards. pciconf -l lists xl0 (network card), vga0 (video card) and
these: none0, none1 chip0 chip1 chip2 chip3. Specific card drivers list
only ISA devices. It would really suck if it didn't work. Any ideas?
Help would be GREATLY appreciated!
Also, here is my uname output:
[matt@europa ~]% uname -a
FreeBSD europa.damnsw.net 3.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #2: Mon Sep 27
22:34:38 EDT 1999 ma...@europa.damnsw.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/EUROPA
i386
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Mike Smith
> rev 0x03) at pci0 dev 17 function 0 not configured
>
> This and consulting efnet #freebsd leads me to believe this card is
> a Yamaha xg based PCI sound card.
Sounds like a YMF724 or similar; supported by OSS (www.opensound.com).
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Reinier Bezuidenhout
I am running 4.0-CURRENT with an onboard YMF724C as far as I gather. I tried
the OSS approach and found that after a few minutes my system would either
freeze or panic ... I susspect they have a nice bug in their kld. (I used
their 4.0 oss version). I mailed them about the problem and they just said,
sorry ... but if that is what is happening it would take some time to fix,
and it didn't seem like it would be soon.
:(
So I used my old ESS sound card instead.
Reinier
Mike Smith
>
> I am running 4.0-CURRENT with an onboard YMF724C as far as I gather. I tried
> the OSS approach and found that after a few minutes my system would either
> freeze or panic ... I susspect they have a nice bug in their kld. (I used
> their 4.0 oss version). I mailed them about the problem and they just said,
> sorry ... but if that is what is happening it would take some time to fix,
> and it didn't seem like it would be soon.
Given the speed at which -current is changing, I wouldn't be accusing
their KLD of being buggy so much as just not absolutely up to date.
Their 724 driver is actually pretty stable; I've run it for days at a
time under -stable with no problems.
Reinier Bezuidenhout
> > sorry ... but if that is what is happening it would take some time to fix,
> > and it didn't seem like it would be soon.
>
> Given the speed at which -current is changing, I wouldn't be accusing
> their KLD of being buggy so much as just not absolutely up to date.
>
> Their 724 driver is actually pretty stable; I've run it for days at a
> time under -stable with no problems.
>
We tried it on a 3.2-STABLE machine too, with the same effects ...
(although it was a different Yamaha 701 PCI card)
Maybe we did something wrong :/
Did you do anything special ??
Reinier
Mike Smith
> > time under -stable with no problems.
>
> We tried it on a 3.2-STABLE machine too, with the same effects ...
> (although it was a different Yamaha 701 PCI card)
>
> Maybe we did something wrong :/
>
> Did you do anything special ??
Nope. Load and go.
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jack
> We tried it on a 3.2-STABLE machine too, with the same effects ...
> (although it was a different Yamaha 701 PCI card)
>
> Maybe we did something wrong :/
>
> Did you do anything special ??
I use it for my AWE64 and have found that loading it as early as
possible greatly improves stability. (Possibly because it's such
a memory hog???) I load it from /etc/rc just before inetd is
loaded and have had it run for weeks with no problems.
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Reinier Bezuidenhout
>
> > We tried it on a 3.2-STABLE machine too, with the same effects ...
> > (although it was a different Yamaha 701 PCI card)
> >
> > Maybe we did something wrong :/
> >
> > Did you do anything special ??
>
> I use it for my AWE64 and have found that loading it as early as
> possible greatly improves stability. (Possibly because it's such
> a memory hog???) I load it from /etc/rc just before inetd is
> loaded and have had it run for weeks with no problems.
>
Ah .. thanx ... I'll try that !!
Reinier
Matt Johnson
unstable and crash, and I'm not sure I want to pay for that if it's so
unstable). But what I'd really like is an internal FreeBSD driver for it,
rather than resorting to 3rd party (and commercial, yeck) software. When
OSS is loaded, I do cat /dev/sndstat and it says:
Kernel: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #2: Mon Sep 27 22:34:38 EDT 1999
ma...@europa.damnsw.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/EUROPA
Card config:
Yamaha YMF724 at 0xe6820000 irq 10
Audio devices:
0: Yamaha DS-XG (YMF724F) (DUPLEX)
so is there any support for this in -current or -stable? (as you see, I'm
still running -release)
[and also, the sound seems to be higher treble and less bass then sound on
the same headphones coming out of the Mac, is this just a matter of the
software that I'm using to play it or what?]
Thanks, Matt
Mike Smith
> unstable and crash, and I'm not sure I want to pay for that if it's so
> unstable). But what I'd really like is an internal FreeBSD driver for it,
> rather than resorting to 3rd party (and commercial, yeck) software. When
> OSS is loaded, I do cat /dev/sndstat and it says:
Yamaha don't have any documentation available for this device apart
from the SB Pro emulation, so not much chance of any support in the
forseeable future.
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