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From: Andre LeClaire <leclaire@venus.net>
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To: Gerard Giamberdine <gerard@holly.colostate.edu>
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Subject: Re: reveal sound card
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> 
> I've got a reveal soundblaster pro that I'm trying to get working.
> I rebuilt the kernel with controller snd0, device sb0 ..., and
> when the system boots it looks like it identifies it ok. But when
> I run sound apps - nothing. I've also re MAKEDEV /dev/snd0. There
> was scarse info in the mail archives, but I get the impression that
> this sound card needs to be initialized. Is this what I need to do
> (how?), or am I missing something else? No help from reveal since
> they're history.
> 
I used to have a reveal sound card and the cdrom interface wouldn't work 
with FreeBSD because it had to be initialized with a dos driver before 
the system would recognize it. The way I finally got it running was to 
make a dos boot floppy with the driver in config.sys, then booting into 
FreeBSD with fbsdboot.exe in autoexec.bat - kind of a pain, but it worked.
I wonder if your problem is similar.

Andre