Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 10:27:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Thomas David Rivers) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: More info about my sound card problems. Message-ID: <199505251727.KAA00809@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199505251508.LAA02895@lakes> from "Thomas David Rivers" at May 25, 95 11:08:38 am
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> > > OK - I've finally gotten some information from MediaMagic > regarding my sound card woes. > > 1) They will not tell me the phone number of the "chip manufacturer" > > 2) The "chip manufacturer" apparently will not call me back with programming > information. > > 3) The "chip manufacturer" is OPTi (I had to beg and plead to get that much.) > > 4) The IRQ settings, etc... are stored on an ASIC on the card, not in > NVRAM. So, a hard boot restores the default configuration. If you > want a different configuration; you have to program the chip. (The > tech. support guy indicated they weren't too happy with this situation, > and several others, but OPTi wasn't about to change this.) > > > So - at this point I'd like to ask the group: > > 1) Does anyone have OPTi's phone number, so I can call them > directly. Not a number to a person, but maybe there is a number for a person on this (thanks to phk for getting this for me!!): Opti BBS (408) 980 9774 > 2) Are other sound cards that have this phenomena, if so, > what to people do about the printer wanting to use IRQ 7. > > > - Thanks - > - Dave Rivers - > > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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