From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jun 24 00:05:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA29276 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:05:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA29269 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:05:35 -0700 (PDT) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Received: from mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.87]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) with SMTP id JAA24641 ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:04:54 +0200 (METDST) Received: from garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr (garfield) by mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jn930126+af960507(mailhost)) at Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:04:27 +0100 Received: from (af@localhost) by garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) id JAA10709 ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:04:25 +0100 (GMT-1) Message-Id: <199606240804.JAA10709@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: Will a SB 16 PnP work with FreeBSD? To: somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu (William R. Somsky) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:04:25 +0100 (GMT-1) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199606231937.MAA26086@dirac.phys.washington.edu> from "William R. Somsky" at Jun 23, 96 12:37:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]