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Doug White wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Kwang-Soo Kim wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get this new sound card to work on a new 300MHz Intel
> > box. The sound card is integrated in the motherboard and claims to
> > support SB Pro 16bit.
> 
> That's a contradiction in terms :-)  SB16 came *after* the SBPro; the
> SBPro is technically "8-bit".

The reason that I asked so was because I saw it supports "SB Pro 16bit"
on Windows NT. I also talked with the person who purchased the PC and
he said it should support at least 16-bit sound. He also showed an
NT driver which supports 16 bit.

> 
> > What I tested, however, it only supports 8-bit mode.
> > Dmesg says..
> >       sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa
> >       sb0: <SoundBlaster Pro 3.1>
> >       sbxvi0 not found
> >       sbmidi0 not found at 0x330

Yes, you seem to be right.
I also checked another FreeBSD machine which has AWE32 sound card with
the same kernel. It clearly says supporting "SoundBlaster 16" not the
"SoundBlaster Pro":

sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa
sb0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13>
sbxvi0 at 0x0 drq 5 on isa
sbxvi0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13>
sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa
 <SoundBlaster MPU-401>

It's hard to believe that the new 300MHz motherboard has an 8-bit sound
card on it. Thus I thought it's a matter of driver problem.

Kwang-Soo Kim