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Date:      Sun, 08 Jun 2003 11:00:24 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        Emil A Eklund <eae-dated-1055522455.8c734f@eae.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Sound Blaster Live DD5.1
Message-ID:  <3EE36BA8.8010801@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1055090528.7238.2.camel@tiger.eaenet>
References:  <002f01c32dd4$7fc21b90$0101a8c0@cascade> <1055090528.7238.2.camel@tiger.eaenet>

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Emil A Eklund wrote:
> I believe the soundblasters in dell machines are special in some kind, I
> have a dell as well and the SB Live that came with it works fine under
> windows, but does not work at all under FreeBSD, however I had an old
> Live (exact same spec as the one that came with the machine) and it
> works just fine, I have no idea what's different about the dell ones.
> 
> /Emil A Eklund
> 
> On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 17:41, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> 
>>I have recently purchased a Dell Dimension 8250 which contains a Creative
>>Labs SoundBlaster Live! DD 5.1 card.  My previous SoundBlaster Live! card
>>was detected in FreeBSD 4.7, but this one is not detected in this machine
>>using FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE (cvsup to it).  No pcm devices show during boot.
>>Is there a way to give the kernel a hint?  There is no way to shut of PNP in
>>the BIOS, as Dell as not added this option.
>>
>>Windows XP is showing:
>>
>>I/O Range: DC40-DC5F
>>IRQ: 18
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Tom Veldhouse
>>

Dell has a bad habit of using unique PCI-ID's for hardware that it buys
from others.  Can both of you do 'pciconf -lv' and post the output?  It
might very well be as easy as just adding the Dell IDs to the driver.

Scott



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