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From: perry@bcm.tmc.edu (John Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: soundcard help?
Date: 17 Dec 1996 14:30:22 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine
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>Joel Bradbury <joel@engr.washington.edu> wrote:
>: I'm trying to get a soundcard to work with a FreeBSD 2.1.6 system.  My
>: goal is to use vat for MBone reception, but at the moment I'm just trying
>: to get any noise out of the card at all.  I was originally trying a
>: 'SoundBlaster compatible' card, but have swapped in an older basic
>: SoundBlaster, with no improvement.  The jumpers are set to the default
>: values (port 0x220, irq 7). (The card works OK under DOS.)

I had this exact same problem. The solution is that The SoundBlaster 16 does
not like IRQ sharing. In your previous post, you showed the conflict verb
in your configuration. The SB card MUST have an IRQ of it's own. Once I did
that, it has worked flawlessly.



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