From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Nov 16 07:49:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA27161 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 07:49:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA27156; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 07:49:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA01446; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 09:49:41 GMT Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-beta-102697 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4oPh3em00YUx0250Q0@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 09:49:41 -0000 (GMT) Reply-To: Conrad Sabatier Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: Timothy J Kniveton Subject: Re: PNP/Sound Help? Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 16-Nov-97 Timothy J Kniveton wrote: > Hi. I am running an ASUS TX97-XE mainboard with an onboard Creative > Labs Vibra-16X (Soundblaster 16) chip. It is a PNP beast, which is my > difficulty in using it with FreeBSD. > > I have been trying to find a good source of information on configuring > PNP-only devices with FreeBSD (maybe there is no such thing). It > seems that occasionally, the settings of the card will change. I can > get some of the devices recognized, but some, especially the 16-bit > DSP, do not work. > > Can someone please recommend the best way to get this thing to work? > Direct E-mail is fine. Try Luigi's PnP patches. I had the same problem with my AWE 64 (PnP). What finally worked for me was using the "os" switch in the boot config (e.g., (pnp 2 0 os enable ...) to override my funky BIOS and configure the card to the correct settings. -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads And the Deep Thought of the Day (tm) is: There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. -- Disraeli