Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:04:25 +0100 (GMT-1) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr To: somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu (William R. Somsky) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will a SB 16 PnP work with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199606240804.JAA10709@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <199606231937.MAA26086@dirac.phys.washington.edu> from "William R. Somsky" at Jun 23, 96 12:37:14 pm
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William R. Somsky wrote / a ecrit:
>
> I'm in the process of buying an new computer system to run FreeBSD
> for work/programming and Win95/DOS for games :-) Now, I know that
> the SoundBlaster 16 is pretty much a standard for games and that
> FreeBSD knows how to talk to it. However, what about the new PnP
> varieties? Does the PnP interfere with it's use from FreeBSD?
> These things use software to set things like IRQ's, right? Does
> this need to be done each time the system is powered on? Or do
> the settings get stored non-volitily (sp?), and would only have
> to be set once? And what about the SB 16 Vibra/OEM versions?
> Are they just as good? Better? To be avoided? Any help here
> would be useful...
>
I have such a beast on my muti-OS PC and I did go through some trouble
and headache with it, especially because it has a built-in IDE port
for CDROMs. That port does grab one IRQ. Since I already have two IDE
controllers on my motherboard, I was pretty much running out of IRQ
levels for the rest of my hardware.
I had to deal with the DOS-mode PNP utilities and W95 control panel to
permanently disable the IDE port on the SB16 adapter. Neither of them
are well documented and behave quite consistenly. I *really* would
have preferred a good old card with jumpers. Plug and Pray still isn't
my cup of tea. Still, it works nicely now with DOS6/Win3, Win95, and
with FreeBSD.
_Alain_
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I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator"
But... I *am* the system administrator :-]
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