From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Aug 10 14:18:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15723 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:18:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mom.hooked.net (root@mom.hooked.net [206.80.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15718 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:18:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fish.hooked.net (fish.hooked.net [206.80.6.48]) by mom.hooked.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA00888; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:18:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:18:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Hmmmz To: Randall Hopper cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AWE32/64 support? In-Reply-To: <19970810154112.04412@ct.picker.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Randall Hopper wrote: > To the first question, the driver itself doesn't have PnP detection > and initialization, but you can still use your card with it. You need to > grab Sujal Patel's ISA PnP Tools and link those into your kernel. Once > they init the card, the driver will detect and use it. Well, I honestl don't think it's a PnP thing, even though my card is a PnP device, because the sb, sb16midi and sb16 lines detect the card fine. *shrug* Who knows. > Here's one URL to Sujal's package: > > ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/FreeBSD-ISA_PnP_June8.tar.gz > > I've gotten e-mail and seen list posts from several folks that have gotten > their PnP SoundBlaster cards (e.g. AWE32 PnP, AWE64 PnP, and SB16 PnP) > working using Sujal's kit. > > Note that once the experimental sound drivers Amancio and Luigi are > heading-up the rework for stabilize and are checked in, PnP init for > soundcards in general will probably be handled in the sound drivers > themselves. For now though it's handled external to the sound drivers with > the ISA PnP tools. Thank you very much for this help. - alex