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From: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (John Fieber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16?
Date: 17 Feb 1995 18:12:39 GMT
Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA
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In article <3i010i$jom@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>,
Mark Willey <mwilley@hillres142.cc.purdue.edu> wrote:
>Ryan Eberhard (rje1@cornell.edu) wrote:
>: Has anyone got a driver for the Sound Blaster 16 for FreeBSD 2.0R or is 
>: someone out there working on one?  
>
>On a related note...  I have it for NetBSD, but am having some problems.
>Notably, the notorious "cat file.au > /dev/audio" hanging...
>
>Anyone know of a solution for this problem?  Debugging uprintf'ed version
>available on my machine for FTP along with details about what I'm trying to
>do and what's happened to me so far.

I can't claim exhaustive testing, but the drivers included with
the FreeBSD 2.0R distribution seem quite content with my SB16.

-john
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