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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!esiee.fr!jussieu.fr!fdn.fr!med.univ-tours.fr!univ-angers.fr!univ-rennes1.fr!irisa.fr!news-rocq.inria.fr!news2.EUnet.fr!Belgium.EU.net!news.kb.be!news From: Danny Backx <u27113@kb.be> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SoundBlaster32 and FreeBSD Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 07:47:36 +0100 Organization: Kredietbank, Havenlaan 2, 1210 Brussel, Belgium Lines: 26 Message-ID: <32D49488.3FBE@kb.be> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961231111011.357A-100000@pv324.pv.reshsg.uci.edu> <32D3DE04.359A@center.uscs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kb.be Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.04 9000/826) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33876 L. Scott Emmons wrote: > Brian Park wrote: > > I have been told by FreeBSD staff that SoundBlaster32 is not supported. > > DOes any one know otherwise, or have heard of any upcoming drivers for > > it? I am getting really bored of no sound coming out of my speakers. > It depends on how you define "supported" :-) I guess the PNP stuff isn't > ready yet, but I did discover a kludgy way around this. What I do is boot > first into DOS and run the "ctpnp" DOS program, which will configure the > card (this program is on the SB32 install disks). Then, I run the > "fbsdboot" program, which allows you to boot FreeBSD from DOS. I have a similar situation with an OPTi 931 board which is a soundblaster 3.2 compatible thing - or so say the docs. It's plug and play so FreeBSD doesn't activate it. When I boot in DOS and run the initialisation program there, it'll initialise the card for me. Using Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot to FreeBSD keeps the card active and FreeBSD will detect it. By the way, does anybody have PnP scanning code ? I'd like to get rid of that stupid reboot :-) Danny -- Danny Backx, Kredietbank, Havenlaan 2, 1210 Brussel, Belgium u27113@kb.be Tel. +32(2)422.74.57 Fax. +32(2)422.81.77