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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!data.ramona.vix.com!sonysjc!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!dolphin.neosoft.com!nobody From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Of Mice And Multimedia Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:18:25 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 40 Message-ID: <hrrbi5.ov1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.69 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38701 I've been running up against a rather intriguing set of problems in trying to get a Soundblaster AWE 64 to work under FreeBSD (2.2.1). Much to my chagrin, I didn't realize the card was PnP when I bought it (I still have time to return it, and am *this close* to doing so). To be as concise as possible, it seems the only way to get FreeBSD to recognize it is to compile a kernel with all the sound-related IRQs, DMAs, etc. configured to the card's default settings: options SBC_IRQ=5 controller snd0 device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 conflicts drq 1 vector sbintr device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330 device opl0 at isa? port 0x388 Only problem is, when I do this, my PS/2-style mouse no longer works under X. If I use the sound defaults in LINT, the card isn't recognized. I've gone over and over this and can't figure out where the conflict is arising between the soundcard and mouse. Arggh! I've also noticed that "cat /dev/sndstat" shows bogus IRQ and port for the sbxvi0, sbmidi0 and opl0 devices (65535 and <some huge number> -- obviously, -1 in 16 and 32 bits, respectively). Should I explicitly declare this stuff in the config or not? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I'd really *much* rather get this thing working than have to return it and get something else. It's a fabulous card, really. By the way, no luck at all with OSS, either. Damn Plug-and-Play! I *hate* it! -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads