Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:15:06 -0700 From: dmp@aracnet.com To: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Cc: William Melanson <wjm@gate.net>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "PLEASE TAKE ME OFF..." Message-ID: <37B9FB0A.60602776@aracnet.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908171324210.563-100000@localhost.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
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Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > I got a Pentium yesterday, I didnt slept a night. So it were maybe 3. Its > not so much faster, than I expected. The overall performance. 16 MB. > Compared to a 486. Miro videogarabbercard test showed lower transferspeed > via adaptec 1542 SCSI card. The drive is a of an today incredible size, > dmesg shows 3.300 transfer speed of the card. The mainboard came with some > kind of a manual with horses. "P/I-P55TP4XE". Never had such a beast > before. > > Maybe somebody knows what to do: The SCSI card has a floppy controller. > The mainboard has a build in floppy controller, there is everything for > IDE. What do I have to do to have a floppy. Currently I have "floppy" > disabled in the bios, it boots ok. All data inside.... > > (PS.: Are there "floppiesdrives with FIFO" ?) > > One good side of the new board: No pnpcard problems at all, it didnt work > on the 486. > > Sound, multimedia: what do I do to enable the "pca0" Audiodriver ? I think > I have it in the kernel, dmesg | grep pca: > > pca0 on motherboard > pca0: PC audio speaker driver > > But I cant make it run, found no man page covering the question: sh > MAKEDEV ???????? . Etc pp....... > > I think I should be able to do some echo bla >/dev/audio. > > In Csoundland, it should be something like csound -odev/audio, hope it is > a little bit faster than windoze multimedia. I'm not sure what to make of this? Is it anecdotal or questions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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