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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Hi Joe,

Questions related to sound cards to the multimedia mailing list.

Luigi has a sound driver which works with Sujal Patel's PnP package.

	Cheers,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Mike Smith :
> > 
> > My BIOs also claims to support plug and play. In Freebsd (2.2.2-R) I have
> > set the sound card (soundblaster 16) to the same settings Windoze 95 picked
> > up but the Kernel still can't find the card.
> 
> Your BIOS is leaving the card disabled because it is not a device 
> required for booting.  This is correct behaviour according to the PnP 
> standard document.
> 
> Windows '95 will be performing resource allocation and activating the 
> card.  There is no code in FreeBSD 2.2.* to do this.
> 
> > I was going to seek out this beta driver until I saw Janice's posting. What
> > is my recourse? Do without the sound card or find another OS?
> 
> That depends on your requirements.  I wouldn't be exactly inclined to 
> chose an operating system based on whether or not it supported my 
> soundcard, but your criteria may vary.
> 
> > I'm already "doing without" PPP due to an obscure problem between pppd and
> > a particular release of Bay code.
> 
> ... you could always try the usermode 'ppp', which is slightly more 
> actively maintained, or attempt to work through your problem with Paul 
> Mackerras. (The developer/maintainer of the 'pppd' program.)
> 
> > ]1. mail from Sujal notes that "if your motherboard supports PnP
> > ]devices, then you don't need this code". What does this mean?
> 
> It's not entirely correct, in that it implies that the PnP BIOS will 
> leave all devices enabled.  Some older systems did this; it is not 
> universal.
> 
> mike
> 
> 
>