Date: Mon, 29 Apr 96 19:17:30 EDT From: gtc@aloft.att.com (gary.corcoran) To: bmk@transport.com, jdp@polstra.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16 PnP Message-ID: <9604292317.AA18292@stargazer>
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Regarding: => Brant wrote: = => > > Meanwhile, you can use the board as long as you first boot up DOS to => > > configure it. Then reboot into FreeBSD via CTRL-ALT-DELETE. Don't => > > reboot via the reset button, or you'll probably unconfigure the board => > > again. => > => > Unfortunately, I've tried this and I can't get it to work this way => > either. = => Strange, it works for me. [ deleted other stuff ] =One other thing: the card isn't recognized under Windows 95 either, =unless I load the Intel ICU device driver (for DOS). = Your last point makes it clear that your board has NOT gone through the PnP initialization when you boot into either Win95 or FreeBSD. What you may not be aware of is the fact that many motherboards these days initiate a HARDWARE reset when you press Ctl-Alt-Del on your keyboard! My motherboard (AMI Titan II Pentium) apparently does this. How can you tell? When you press Ctl-Alt-Del, does your screen go completely blank, then come up showing (briefly) a line or two from your video card, and then go through a FULL power-up reset sequence, including a memory test? If so, then you've probably got a hard reset all-the-time motherboard (if you just go immediately to the power up sequence but it does NOT do a memory test after Ctl-Alt-Del then you may not have this "feature"). If your motherboard does do this, then it appears that you are "stuck" until if/when the OS (FreeBSD in this case) properly handles PnP initialization... Gary
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