From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 20:46:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wcug.wwu.edu (sloth.wcug.wwu.edu [140.160.164.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4097837B55A for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 20:46:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjohnson@wcug.wwu.edu) Received: (qmail 13239 invoked by uid 1089); 18 May 2000 03:46:21 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 20:46:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher Johnson X-Sender: cjohnson@sloth To: jeffr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SB Live! Is it, or is it aint? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17 May 2000, jeffr wrote: > I have the SB Live! card. I sure would like to be able to use it in > FreeBSD, however the current driver seems to cause total lockup of my OS > with the message, "Parity Check 10000", on occassion. Bummer. > > To make matters worse, it appears that part of the code is now missing > from ftp.freebsd.org. I have used the instructions at > http://wcug.wwu.edu/~cjohnson/sblive4.txt and this did work, with > exception of the parity check train wrecks every once in a while. But now > the file emu10k1.h is missing. > > Does anyone know if there is a reason for this? Is there a newer version > somewhere without the file system damaging feature? Sure would like to > know. > > Thanks, > > Jeff Drat. I suspected something like this might happen. The message I posted earlier was supposed to be a "state of the union" for SBLive! support. Since then, the SBLive! drivers were fully committed to the 4.0-STABLE branch. If you're following 4.0-STABLE, a cvsup and kernel recompile should help out with your problems. If it weren't so close to the end of the quarter, I'd upgrade from 3.4 to 4.0 and see how well they work. Chris Johnson cjohnson@wcug.wwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message