From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 17 14:23:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20135 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA20113; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:22:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA27668; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:22:36 -0800 (PST) To: Aaron Clark (John Clark) cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, smpatel@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 32-Bit Soundcard Intialization In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Feb 1997 07:25:10 CST." Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:22:36 -0800 Message-ID: <27663.856218156@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am a graduate student taking a class in network system administration > and we are using freebsd as our os. My prof. has a 32-bit soundblaster > soundcard that is not being properly initialized by freebsd. If the pc is > brought up in dos and then warm booted into freebsd, the card work > fine. > > I am interested in modify or rewriting the driver for this card, but don't > know where to start. Any information that anybody could provide would > greatly appreciated. This appears to be a PnP initialization issue, and it's been noted by a number of people - one guy can't get the card to initialize unless he enables "ICU" configuration in his BIOS, another can't do it at all unless he does exactly what you did on your professor's machine. I asked both of them to do what I'm going to recommend to you - talk to Sujal Patel as the PnP meister and figure out what bit is missing. It does appear that the PnP code just isn't waking the AWE32PnP cards up, even when all of the pnpinfo stuff is properly enabled, and I'm not sure what the solution is. If you're interested in working with those other two SB32 owners, both of whom I'm sure would be happy to help you test and tweak things, you can reach them as chein@cisco.com and overholt@cisco.com (both test engineers for cisco :-). Jordan