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Date:      Fri, 01 Oct 1999 16:33:02 +0000
From:      Rick Yip <rgyip@students.wisc.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   sound, etc...
Message-ID:  <37F4E23D.A98ADEBC@students.wisc.edu>

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> Hi!
>  I have bought the official version of FreeBSD 3.2 and tried to get
> the sound to work but it doesn't.  I tried 4Front's software but that
> doesn't work either.  I get messages that I can't configure /dev/dsp:
> device is busy all of the time.  Somtimes I can't "allocate 32768 M "
> problems.  After reading a how-to on AWE (I have a SoundBlaster AWE64
> PnP) sound cards http://members.home.net/conrads/awepnp-freebsd.html,
> it still doesn't work.  Then, 4Front said I should try FreeBSD 3.3
but
> it still doesn't work.  I do get an error when I tried using awe0 at
> 0x620: device is not found when the computer boots.  I wonder if that
> is hanging the computer.
>  Also, your boot cdrom (3.3) doesn't boot.  3.2 does though.  I don't
> know if you are aware of it.  In addition, everytime I reboot, my
> master boot record gets erase to know which partition is made active.

> I have to boot into dos and fdisk to make the mbr active.  These
> problems I didn't have with 3.2.

Rick



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