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Subject: Re: 32-Bit Soundcard Intialization 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Just post on the multimedia mailing with problems related to sound,
video, etc...

The PnP initialization for your card should be a non-issue whether
you set ICU or not in your BIOS. In fact, the PnP initialization was
written to "manually" initialize PnP devices that is without assistance
from the BIOS.

	Amancio

>From The Desk Of "Jordan K. Hubbard" :
> > I am a graduate student taking a class in network system administration
> > and we are using freebsd as our os. My prof. has a 32-bit soundblaster
> > soundcard that is not being properly initialized by freebsd. If the pc is
> > brought up in dos and then warm booted into freebsd, the card work
> > fine.
> > 
> > I am interested in modify or rewriting the driver for this card, but don't
> > know where to start. Any information that anybody could provide would
> > greatly appreciated.
> 
> This appears to be a PnP initialization issue, and it's been noted by
> a number of people - one guy can't get the card to initialize unless
> he enables "ICU" configuration in his BIOS, another can't do it at all
> unless he does exactly what you did on your professor's machine.
> 
> I asked both of them to do what I'm going to recommend to you - talk
> to Sujal Patel <smpatel@FreeBSD.org> as the PnP meister and figure
> out what bit is missing.  It does appear that the PnP code just isn't
> waking the AWE32PnP cards up, even when all of the pnpinfo stuff is
> properly enabled, and I'm not sure what the solution is.
> 
> If you're interested in working with those other two SB32 owners, both
> of whom I'm sure would be happy to help you test and tweak things, you
> can reach them as chein@cisco.com and overholt@cisco.com (both test
> engineers for cisco :-).
> 
> 					Jordan
>