From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 16 13:51:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1486037B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cmailg1.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg1.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 273F243EAF for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:51:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeanmark@dupx.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from modem-650.antelope.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.134.18.138] helo=dupx.freeserve.co.uk) by cmailg1.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 181v8I-0005KB-00 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 21:51:10 +0100 Message-ID: <3DADD123.766DC898@dupx.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 21:50:43 +0100 From: Jean-Mark Dupoux X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can not get sound card to work Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hey, I also had the same problem. The AWE 64 just doesn't even make noise!. > > While its true that the manual has an example on set it up, it just > didn't work. I tried recompiling the kernel many times, even a couple of > "make world", both with FreeBSD 4.5 and 4.6.2 release. > > I gave up as I don't really need the sound to enjoy the system, but I > think that there is probably an issue with the AWE64 and FreeBSD. > > By the way, the card is on a ISA slot and works fine when running win2k. > > Rafael > > Scott Corey wrote: > > Personally I think I would rather ask a "Question" on FreeBSD-questions > > mailing list. Since that is where the "knowledge source" of FreeBSD > > resides. > > > > Never once have I seen a reference that you looked into the Handbook > > under Multimedia, "16.2 Setting Up The Sound Card". The Sound Blaster > > AWE64 IS listed! > > > > Why don't you try this link: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html > > > > and get back to us on your success. If this is an ISA card the problem could be it has an EEPROM that needs initilializing with a DOS module that would normally run in config.sys. To test the theory you'd need to make a very simple DOS boot-diskette with the right command from the DOS/Windows drivers included, and once the module is loaded do a soft-boot (keyboard ctrl-alt-del) to retain the setting in the EEPROM, then boot into FBSD and try configuring the driver. hope that helps Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message