Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 06:12:04 -0500 (EST) From: Andre LeClaire <leclaire@venus.net> To: Gerard Giamberdine <gerard@holly.colostate.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reveal sound card Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970110060126.147A-100000@lostfork> In-Reply-To: <32D5F944.41C67EA6@holly.colostate.edu>
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> > I've got a reveal soundblaster pro that I'm trying to get working. > I rebuilt the kernel with controller snd0, device sb0 ..., and > when the system boots it looks like it identifies it ok. But when > I run sound apps - nothing. I've also re MAKEDEV /dev/snd0. There > was scarse info in the mail archives, but I get the impression that > this sound card needs to be initialized. Is this what I need to do > (how?), or am I missing something else? No help from reveal since > they're history. > I used to have a reveal sound card and the cdrom interface wouldn't work with FreeBSD because it had to be initialized with a dos driver before the system would recognize it. The way I finally got it running was to make a dos boot floppy with the driver in config.sys, then booting into FreeBSD with fbsdboot.exe in autoexec.bat - kind of a pain, but it worked. I wonder if your problem is similar. Andre
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