From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Dec 29 12:19:32 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA10414 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 12:19:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA10409 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 12:19:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.2/8.8.2) id PAA05667; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:19:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:19:24 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199612292019.PAA05667@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound Blaster PnP babble Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.multimedia References: <5a67hc$18l0@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich