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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

My other ASUS, a P5A-B which differs from the first one in how you set bus 
speed but has the same super socket 7, also will play .wav files that came 
with the SB drivers but won't play them if they are made by cdda2wav from 
a CD.  It plays the CD with workbone, but play won't work in linux.  DOS 
msp will work.

Error;
Sound:  DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error.

The other ASUS had something about hda: DMA hdb: DMA etc. in dmesg, unlike 
the computer where play worked which had hda:pio, so I went hunting for 
this but found neither in dmesg here.

I did find
PCI_IDE Bus-Baster DMA disabled (BIOS) - is this relevant?

In BIOS I tried changing
PCI-BIOS IRQ 5 used by ISA from no to yes - which made sb not work at all.

Then I tried changing
ide1 PIO/DMA mode from Auto to 0/0 or 1/0
This did not help either.

I have CMOS set mostly to defaults (I disabled USB support, added the B: 
floppy drive, set some sleep settings, disabled Com2).

Apparently the problem is related to the motherboard or else to the 
default BIOS settings.

I tried to use cdda2wav on this computer, with the NEC 4-tray CD-ROM 
drive, which kept timing out.  9000+ jitter (but the one with 12,000 
jitter did not time out, it just made unrecordable files).  This is not 
the best drive for ripping anyway since it is 4X and I have 48X drives, 
but it would have been interesting to try to use cdda2wav on four trays. 
DOS identifies them as four partitions/drives (G: H: I: J:) but linux 
reports ATAPI 4X CD-ROM changer w/4 slots.  Perhaps this is what is 
confusing cdda2wav, tho I did use the first slot.  DOS has a special 
driver but the drive also has four buttons (eject).

So I could not test whether cdda2wav -e worked to play files as it copied 
them at 1X.  I also could not rip the wav file on this computer but I did 
so on the 6X NEC (no jitter at all) and sent via ethernet (which was not 
working - I have to keep pushing the cable in harder).  The sound was not 
working either until I turned on the powered speakers.

Some day I may try bplay or splay instead of play.


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > I have just determined that I have a computer (ASUS with K6 350MHz cpu) 
> > which will play wav files UNLESS I ripped them with cdda2wav.  I tried 
> > various different CDs, and I tried two sound cards.  They are both 
> > Soundblaster Creative AWE (AWE32 and AWE64) and they play wav files form 
> > other sources but with wav files ripped from a CD they complain of a DRQ 
> > conflict.
> >
> > I ripped the same wav file from the same cd using the same version SW81 of 
> > cdda2wav on the other computer, which has an awe32 vibra16 card, said to be 
> > incompatible with sb.o, and it plays perfectly there.
> >
> > The original CD plays on both computers.
> >
> > Sound:  DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
> > (pages and pages of this).  Is it motherboard related somehow?
> >
> > I don't see how this could be related to copy protection.
> > Has it happened to anyone else?
> >
> > I will try the other ASUS motherboard, similar age and cpu speed.  Super 
> > Socket 7.  100MHz bus speed.
>
> DOS msp can play the .wav files made by DOS cd2wav or linux cdda2wav, but 
> linux play cannot.
>
> I tried play from SW81 but it had the same problem.  Should I also try a 
> later sox?
>
> The only thing I found in dmesg that might be relevant is:
> hda:  DMA  hdb: DMA hcd: DMA hdd: DMA
>
> On the computer where 'play' works in linux these are hda: pio etc.
> I found mention of hda:  DMA and hda: pio in various linux-kernel 
> discussions, also mention of sound problems on other ASUS boards.  Time to 
> try the other ASUS board on a ripped CD.
>
> This is not at all important, just odd.  I don't normally play .wav files but 
> I wanted to make sure they were ripped correctly before burning them.
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