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Date:      Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:45:36 -0500
From:      Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Clem.Dye@wdr.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Creative Labs PCI128 soundcard under FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <19990409184536.A3965@winternet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091615140.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 04:15:45PM -0700
References:  <19990409103558.I29993@winternet.com> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091615140.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Nathan Ahlstrom wrote:
> 
> > Clem.Dye@wdr.com wrote:
> > > My apologies if this question has been aired before, but does anyone 
> > > use or have details of how a Creative Labs PCI128 soundcard might be 
> > > used under FreeBSD? I'm having some problems configuring my existing 
> > > SB Pro (CT1600) card on my system (soon to be dual-boot Windows NT 
> > > 4.0 & FreeBSD 3.1) - under NT the sound card driver blows-over 
> > > periodically for no apparent reason. This may of course be purely an 
> > > NT problem, but before I install FreeBSD I'd like to iron-out any 
> > > hardware funnies. Given the age of the CT1600 buying a PCI128 would 
> > > seem a good investment compared to the eternity it may take to 
> > > track-down the problem, but only if I can get the thing to work under 
> > > NT (pretty much a no-brainer) and FreeBSD.
> > > 
> > > I've taken a cursory look at the FreeBSD mail archives but so far 
> > > have turned-up nothing.
> > 
> > It should work on the 3.1-RELEASE.
> 
> Wow, when did we add PCI soundcard support?

This is the only PCI sound card supported AFAIK.

> The SBPro will work fine; the PCI one isn't supported, AFAIK. Contact
> multimedia@freebs.org for info.

See /sys/pci/es1370.c.    ;-)

 * Support the ENSONIQ AudioPCI board based on the ES1370 and Codec
 * AK4531.

Pretty cool eh?

-- 
Nathan Ahlstrom                        FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/
nrahlstr@winternet.com                 PGP Key ID: 0x67BC9D19


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