Hacking the Whistle InterJet

Sound card support

Our first attempts to enable sound support under 4.x were with the following kernel options:

device          pcm
device          sbc0    at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 flags 0x15

... followed by the standard MAKEDEV:

# cd /dev
# sh MAKEDEV snd0

This results in the following dmesg output:

sbc0: <SoundBlaster 2.0> at port 0x220-0x22f irq 7 drq 1 flags 0x15 on isa0
pcm0: <SB DSP 2.01> on sbc0

Unfortunately, attempts to use mpg123 and waveplay only chewed up a bunch of CPU time, didn't produce any output, and didn't terminate without user intervention.

The following deprecated (snd) VOXWARE driver settings actually work:

device snd0
device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 drq 1
device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 7
device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330

giving the following dmesg output:

sb0 at port 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 on isa0
snd0: <SoundBlaster 2.1>
sb0: driver is using old-style compatability shims

... but you have to pass mpg123 a "-2" flag to step it down because it can't play 44100 for some reason (it may require more CPU power than the machine has?)

No one has successfully gotten sound to work under 5.x yet that we're aware of.

For reference: the sound section of the FreeBSD Handbook.

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was last updated: 2016-10-15