From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 17 17:21:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from guppy.pond.net (guppy.pond.net [205.240.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E7814D87 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:21:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@aracnet.com) Received: from aracnet.com (snapuser2-89.pacificcrest.net [216.36.34.89]) by guppy.pond.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA28349; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:12:28 -0700 (PDT) From: dmp@aracnet.com Message-ID: <37B9FB0A.60602776@aracnet.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:15:06 -0700 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Heiko Recktenwald Cc: William Melanson , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "PLEASE TAKE ME OFF..." References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > I got a Pentium yesterday, I didnt slept a night. So it were maybe 3. Its > not so much faster, than I expected. The overall performance. 16 MB. > Compared to a 486. Miro videogarabbercard test showed lower transferspeed > via adaptec 1542 SCSI card. The drive is a of an today incredible size, > dmesg shows 3.300 transfer speed of the card. The mainboard came with some > kind of a manual with horses. "P/I-P55TP4XE". Never had such a beast > before. > > Maybe somebody knows what to do: The SCSI card has a floppy controller. > The mainboard has a build in floppy controller, there is everything for > IDE. What do I have to do to have a floppy. Currently I have "floppy" > disabled in the bios, it boots ok. All data inside.... > > (PS.: Are there "floppiesdrives with FIFO" ?) > > One good side of the new board: No pnpcard problems at all, it didnt work > on the 486. > > Sound, multimedia: what do I do to enable the "pca0" Audiodriver ? I think > I have it in the kernel, dmesg | grep pca: > > pca0 on motherboard > pca0: PC audio speaker driver > > But I cant make it run, found no man page covering the question: sh > MAKEDEV ???????? . Etc pp....... > > I think I should be able to do some echo bla >/dev/audio. > > In Csoundland, it should be something like csound -odev/audio, hope it is > a little bit faster than windoze multimedia. I'm not sure what to make of this? Is it anecdotal or questions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message