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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!somsky From: somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu (William R. Somsky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Will a SB 16 PnP work with FreeBSD? Date: 23 Jun 1996 19:41:09 GMT Organization: University of Washington Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4qk6kl$hjn@nntp5.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dirac.phys.washington.edu I'm in the process of buying an new computer system to run FreeBSD for work/programming and Win95/DOS for games :-) Now, I know that the SoundBlaster 16 is pretty much a standard for games and that FreeBSD knows how to talk to it. However, what about the new PnP varieties? Does the PnP interfere with it's use from FreeBSD? These things use software to set things like IRQ's, right? Does this need to be done each time the system is powered on? Or do the settings get stored non-volitily (sp?), and would only have to be set once? And what about the SB 16 Vibra/OEM versions? Are they just as good? Better? To be avoided? Any help here would be useful... Thanks, ________________________________________________________________________ William R. Somsky somsky@phys.washington.edu Department of Physics, Box 351560 B432 Physics-Astro Bldg Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560 206/616-2954