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

[Justin Coyne <jcoyne@breakout.micro.umn.edu>]

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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