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Date:      Sat, 25 Jul 1998 22:26:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
To:        Erik <jobby@segfault.tqci.net>
Cc:        Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sound Blaster 16
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980725221126.308B-100000@outpost.nada.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980725183923.26253A-100000@segfault.tqci.net>

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Sorry, I've been away for awhile (moving and changing size of /usr and
/var :). 

First, the PnP features must be enabled in your kernel. Like this:
#
# THE SOUND CARD MAZE:
#
controller      pnp0    # this enables the pnp features.

controller      snd0    # this enables the sound features (!)
device          sb0     at isa? port 0x220 irq 10 drq 1 vector sbintr
# This is the sound blaster (low drq)
device          sbxvi0  at isa? drq 5
# This is also the sound blaster (high drq)
device          sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330
# this is the midi interface
device          opl0    at isa? port 0x388
# and this is... hmmmm... needed. :)
device          pca0    at isa? port IO_TIMER1 tty
# and this well, it's the ugly PC-Speaker "back from the dead"!

So if your kernel looks somehow different than this, try this one instead.
(eh, it worked for me!!!)

After successfully compiling and installing the kernel, you got to tell
the sound blaster to behave. Which is you got to reboot, and enter "-c" at
the "boot:" prompt. This will bring you to another prompt.

That's the rough part. I never remember quite exactly... Well try this and
tell me what it looks like.
Type:

2 0 os enable irq0 10 drq0 1 drq1 5 port0 0x220 port1 0x330 port2 0x388

at the prompt. Little comments: I *think* that you can change the values
as long as they conrrespond with the values defined in your kernel. 
Also, you can type "help" at the prompt, you can also type "list", to see
what you've done. Also, as you'll see if you try 'help', that you can type
the big command I showed you as many commands smaller:

2 0 os
2 0 enable
2 0 irq0 10
2 0 drq0 1 drq1 5
[...]

You get the picture?

Really hoping that this helps!

Spidey

On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Erik wrote:

> Hi again. here's more info. I'm on 2.2.7 and i'm sure it's setup like i
> was told. i read reread then read it again. It's a Sound Blaster 16 with PnP. and I made
> the snd0 device already with ./MAKEDEV. It says it's at 220...i'm curious
> why my kernel can't find it.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Frank Pawlak wrote:
> 
> > On Jul 24,  2:02pm, Erik wrote:
> > > Subject: Sound Blaster 16
> > > I got a Sound Blaster 16 card and followed the instructions in LINT and
> > > isa/sound/sound.doc. My kernel still can't find the devices "sb0 not
> > > found"
> > >
> > > here's my config section for the sound card
> > 
> > Whay version of FreeBSD are you running? Is your SB a pnp card?  Are you sure
> > that you card is setup as indicated in your kernel config file?
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > This line looks fine
> > 
> > > controller snd0
> > 
> > > device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 vector sbintr
> > 
> > Drop the word conflicts from the end of this line.
> > 
> > > device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 conflicts
> > > device sbmidi0  at isa? port 0x330
> > 
> > Other wise you config file looks fine.  BTW are all of the audio devices
> > present in /dev ??
> > 
> > Let me know if you need further help.
> > 
> > Frank
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > where am i going wrong? It looks right and i checked the ircq's and all
> > > that/ Am i missing something?
> > >
> > > erik
> > >
> > >
> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
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> > >-- End of excerpt from Erik
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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Spidey

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