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Date:      Sun, 23 Jun 1996 12:37:14 -0700
From:      "William R. Somsky" <somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.com
Subject:   Will a SB 16 PnP work with FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <199606231937.MAA26086@dirac.phys.washington.edu>

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I'm in the process of buying an new computer system to run FreeBSD
for work/programming and Win95/DOS for games :-)  Now, I know that
the SoundBlaster 16 is pretty much a standard for games and that
FreeBSD knows how to talk to it.  However, what about the new PnP
varieties?  Does the PnP interfere with it's use from FreeBSD?
These things use software to set things like IRQ's, right?  Does
this need to be done each time the system is powered on?  Or do
the settings get stored non-volitily (sp?), and would only have
to be set once?  And what about the SB 16 Vibra/OEM versions?
Are they just as good?  Better?  To be avoided?  Any help here
would be useful...

							Thanks,
________________________________________________________________________
William R. Somsky			      somsky@phys.washington.edu
Department of Physics, Box 351560		 B432 Physics-Astro Bldg
Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560		    206/616-2954



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