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From: pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Soundblaster 16 - what am I doing wrong?
Date: 8 May 1995 19:36:24 +0200
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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Message-ID: <3olkqo$eov@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pilhuhn.de
Hi all!
Yesterday I got a Soundblaster 16 Value Edition pretty cheap, so
I went to install it.
There's no sound.doc in 2.0R, so I looked at the LINT kernel, and
the 1.1R sound.doc.
Here's, what I did:
Kernel config:
options "ALLOW_CONFLICT_IRQ"
device snd2 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 vector sbintr
device snd6 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 5 vector sbintr
device snd1 at isa? port 0x388
rebuild, reboot, the devices are probed and recognised correctly.
# cd /dev
# sh MAKEDEV snd0
# cat something.au >/dev/audio
nothing happens ???
Now I'm stuck. Any help appreciated.
BTW: Creatix is a great example for DOS weenies unable to even think of
someone using their products whith some other OS :-(
I wanted to run DIAGNOSE.EXE as stated in the manual (I do read manuals ;-)
On the disk there was only some INSTALL.EXE and a lot of archive files in
some unknown format. OK, start INSTALL to unpack the diagnose utility to
some floppy. (I don't have a DOS partition!). Well, it complains, there's
no disk with enough free space for all the great software. Fine, go to
a friend running Windoze to unpack the software. Now the INSTALL.EXE
complains it doesn't find a Soundblaster board ****ARRRGH!****.
Thanks in advance, Paddy
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