Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:19:24 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound Blaster PnP babble Message-ID: <199612292019.PAA05667@crh.cl.msu.edu> References: <5a67hc$18l0@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In lists.freebsd.multimedia you write:
>> 1 - If you have a PnP bios, you don't need to use my PnP driver. If you
>Hmm, this appears to not be the case for most folks. :-(
>> 2 - If you don't have a PnP bios then you can just use my driver and
>> everything will just work fine.
>Hmm, this appears to not be the case for most folks. :-)
>Essentially, I don't know of anyone who has managed to get a PnP SB
>card to work with FreeBSD - not a single one. Anyone out there
>besides Sujal care to chime in with a success story to offset this
>rather unfortunate statistic? :-)
I have, one in a 486, one integrated into a motherboard. The trick is to tell
the BIOS not to do PNP (if you can), the card then generally places itself at
the default location (IRQ 5). Tweaking the BIOS settings for PNP tend to make
the world of difference..
-Crh
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Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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