From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Oct 20 19:28:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA9737B404 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:28:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (fastmail.fm [209.61.183.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA4E43E88 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:28:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leegold@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958596DAE0; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:28:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from server2.fastmail.fm (server2.internal [10.202.2.133]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752276DA7A; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:28:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from server2.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768F8EC88; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:28:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: by server2.fastmail.fm (Postfix, from userid 99) id 4E4C0EC87; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:28:23 -0500 (CDT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.6; T1.001; A1.48; B2.12; Q2.03) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:28:23 UT From: "leegold" To: "Scott Corey" X-Epoch: 1035167303 X-Sasl-enc: 6S2N5H8WTIW73zRffxBmAA Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can not get sound card to work Message-Id: <20021021022823.4E4C0EC87@server2.fastmail.fm> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:00:36 -0500, "Scott Corey" said: > You guys must be smoking crack. my AWE64 works GREAT! I don't know why the dang thing's busted. I'm buying the shrink-wrap driver. I think there are a couple of AWE64 variations maybe we got a limited run w/a wierd chip version. If not,I wish I knew what the heck I've been doing wrong. > leegold wrote: > >>Hey, I also had the same problem. The AWE 64 just doesn't even make noise!. > >>While its true that the manual has an example on set it up, it just > >>didn't work. I tried recompiling the kernel many times, even a couple of > >>"make world", both with FreeBSD 4.5 and 4.6.2 release. > >> > >>I gave up as I don't really need the sound to enjoy the system, but I > >>think that there is probably an issue with the AWE64 and FreeBSD. > >> > >>By the way, the card is on a ISA slot and works fine when running win2k. > >> > > > > > > Same experience, my AWE64 worked fine in WIN2k and Mandrake Linux. > > But I spent a solid week trying in FreeBsd - I tried everything - no > > sound. > > There's a commercial driver: http://www.opensound.com/ > > I'm thinking of spending the money - there's free phone support too. > > Really shook me up that FBsd can't PnP my sound less support it. > > Of course we may be doing something wrong, some detail we are over > > looking, > > but I recompiled my kernel 20 times and searched the web for help like a > > maniac, so > > it makes sense at this point to buy the drivers. Very frustrating. > > > > > > > > > >>Rafael > > > > -- > > http://fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an > > unladen european swallow > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > -- http://fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message