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From: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Interactive "probe" utility? (BSD *or* DOS)
Date: 17 Apr 1997 06:56:05 GMT
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, The University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: conrads@neosoft.com's message of Sun, 13 Apr 1997 08:33:53 PST
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In article <ht1ri5.gb1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>
        conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:

 * Still fiddling with trying to get my Soundblaster AWE 64 to work under
 * FreeBSD 2.2.1.  I've run into one basic problem (mentioned earlier, but
 * here goes again):
 * 
 * If I disable PnP in my BIOS, the card is found but my mouse (PS/2 on
 * motherboard) stops working.  If I enable PnP, the mouse works, but the
 * card isn't found.  Arggh.  Catch-22.

Really?  I got mine to work fine by just compiling a kernel with all
the "standard" parameters I found in the manual.  RELENG_2_2
(post-2.2.1), Asus P/I-TP4GXE (or something like that).  PnP enabled,
PS/2 mouse.

Satoshi