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

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

Nothing at all is showing up before it crashes.


Justin Coyne <jcoyne@software.umn.edu>

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Jon Schewe wrote:

> 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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