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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Sindi,
> 
> 
> > > insmod sb   io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1(0)  etc, and you should have no 
> > > problems.
> > 
> 
>    Never mind the jumpers.  Does it work in DOS ?   If it does, then see 
> what:
> "set" returns in the BLASTER variable, and use those settings when insmod 
> -ing
> sb.o      

I don't have sound for DOS running on this computer.
So I opened up the computer and noticed it was set to IRQ 15, not 5, and 
changed that line, and it told me Invalid IRQ 15.  I then changed to IRQ10 
(replacing the jumper, which came apart into two pieces, with a pretty red 
one that I can find again easily) and it worked.


> 
>  
> > I booted with bare.i and did insmod 6 times including the above line and 
> > got four error messages:
> > 
> > unresolved symbol:  attach_uart401  
> > The other three also involved uart401, probe, unload, etc.
> > 
> > Does this mean my irq or dma might be set wrong?
> 
>    Probably.

What it probably meant was that I did not do insmod uart401. I had a few 
typos when typing the insmods and probably put in a _ or - or insmode.  
This time I got it all to work, and then did

cat m_waltz.wav > /dev/audio

I plugged some headphones into the speaker output hole and heard something 
that sounded like the minute waltz played on a radio with terrible 
reception.   Is this likely to get better with an actual music player?

I tried installing realplayer 8, from X, and got 'segmentation fault' - 
what next?

I tried sox and got 'invalid audio buffer size' and I could not find 
'audio buffer' in the sox man page.  

So I have sound but nothing very useful yet.  Are there other players on 
the SW71 CD and if not, what might I get that is small to just test if the 
sound card is sounding bad just because of using cat?  

I would need to make an mp3 to test with amp and that sounds like too much 
work right now and they are too large to download so I will look for 
tiMIDIty online.  

Is there a linux cdplayer?  I searched MANIFEST.gz for play and did not 
find one.  cdplayer  cdplyr  not found  

What is a segmentation fault?  I have all the required libraries for
Realplayer (I checked with ldd just now).  Has any other BL2 user 
installed Realplayer with BL2?
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In the meantime I have compiled openssl by changing 'sh' to 'bash' in the 
Makefile  of the test directory.  Apparently sh does not have a built-in 
echo command and I have not loaded sh-utils so it could not find 'echo' 
and therefore could not test.  Echo:  command not found.  I had the same 
problem when compiling lynx from a script until I changed sh to bash.  
Steven said the symlink from sh to bash should have worked but it did not.

I need to compile lynx again soon.  Openssl took quite a while even on the 
new improved linux computer with 166MHz cpu (that has an F0 0F bug 
workaround found) and 64M RAM.  Lynx is a bit faster.  Openssl is huge and 
includes dozens of hundreds of man pages.  It apparently needs to be 
compiled on my computer (not just compiled for Delilinux) in order for all 
the right files to be there so lynx can use them to compile. I bet I don't 
need the man pages for openssl to compile lynx.

> 
> > 
> > I will read the sound HOW-TO to see if there is some tool for determining 
> > how the jumpers are set.  There was something about isapnptools.  
> 
>    That is a complicated way of doing what I wrote above.  I did the same 
> thing
> when I was trying to get the Vibra16 to work - it found the variable values 
> OK,
> but it didn't help in that case.
> 
>    This is a hardware matter, and what works with DOS will work with BL2 
> and bare-i.
> 
> Regards,
>          Ron
> 
> 
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