Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:40:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAJOR progress on the AWE 64 sound front under FreeBSD! Message-ID: <XFMail.970717224036.conrads@neosoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199707180235.TAA06776@rah.star-gate.com>
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On 18-Jul-97 Amancio Hasty wrote: >Well, the PnP stuff is not that bad if you happen to have a PnP bios >and know what the BIOS sets your card to then you can treat it >as a regular card provided of course that the card does not require >further initialization such as the gus pnp. The problem with my system is that it has this lousy motherboard audio that conflicts with the AWE 64. So I had to disable the PnP BIOS and manually configure everything. >You haven't mentioned which sound driver are you using. VoxWare Sound Driver:3.0-beta-950506 (Sun Feb 5 14:38:12 EST 1995 freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com) >Till Luigi rolls out his supper duper sound driver with PnP support you >can init PnP devices in FreeBSD with: > >ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/FreeBSD-ISA_PnP_June8.tar.gz > >Sujal Patel from Progressive Networks is the author of the PnP >code . Yes, I've experimented with this before, but because I was still using the PnP BIOS at the time, it didn't help (the card still wasn't being found at boot time). I think now that the card is being recognized, and the motherboard audio is disabled (hallelujah!), this might help. Will try it again, for sure. >Randall reminded me about a patch to the above PnP code. >Recently I bought a SB 16 PnP and my BIOS is initializing the >card so I don't need the PnP code for my P133 test system . >The PnP code can reconfigure the card in case that I specifically >need to test or use a configuration. My machine has one of the weirdest BIOSes. If I enable PnP, the AWE 64 isn't found. If I disable PnP, the AWE 64 is found, but the motherboard PS/2 mouse disappears. Really screwy. I finally had to attach a serial mouse and disable PnP altogether. Of course, this means the card is not being initialized, which I think is why the MIDI/au stuff is still not right. Still, I seem to be on the right track, at last. Will explore the PnP code and the AWE driver, and hopefully get the card fully functional soon. In the meantime, it sure is nice to finally have CD audio! :-) -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/
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