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From: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: Sound Blaster PnP babble
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On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> I am not sure about the details. For instance my board is recognised at
> bootup, but as you try to use /dev/audio the process blocks -- probably
> because of incorrect DMA/IRQ configuration. The parameters in the
> kernel match those shown by "pnpinfo" though.

pnpinfo reports all *possible* configurations for the card.  There is some
random code to read the BIOS configuration on
http://www.freebsd.org/~smpatel/pnpget*...


Sujal