can play wav/au files, no mp3 or sound in quake3

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hooligan · Post by **hooligan** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 2:06 am

Ok... this is very bizarre.
For some reason, all of a sudden I have no sound in quake 3, or via xmms... I am using the default OSS drivers, because I was unable to get ALSA working. Quake 3 spams the following message "Dropping Sound" when I try to play... the wierd thing is, Gaim plays sound files when I get IM's and ICQ messages. I recently patched my kernel to get framebuffer support, but it was working since then...

I wasn't able to get my SB 64 ISA to work with ALSA, unfortunately... so I used the default: anyone else ever seen anything like this?

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r2d2 root # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P  
smbfs                  44728   1  (autoclean)
sb                      7700   1 
sb_lib                 41070   0  [sb]
uart401                 7204   0  [sb_lib]
sound                  68372   1  [sb_lib uart401]
soundcore               4004   5  [sb_lib sound]
NVdriver             1067328  10 
dmfe                   14753   1

UPDATE:
Ok... I am getting a message in my /var/kern.log stating the following when I try to play any sounds:

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Mar 26 21:02:51 r2d2 Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

I wonder... how do I enable DMA buffers with the sound.o driver? would I make a /etc/modules.d/sound file with some kind of option in it?

hooligan · Post by **hooligan** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 3:12 am

don't read the above post: stupidity is contagious

I was tooling around in my bios and had enabled "plug and play os"... don't ask me why... I disabled this feature and it now works...