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. Scotthelp
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